leg womann.

Brit.

/ˈlɛɡ wʊmən/, U.S.

/ˈlɛɡ ˌwʊmən/

Inflections: Plural leg women.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: leg n., woman n.

Etymology: < leg n. + woman n., after legman n., legwork n.

Originally U.S.

1. Journalism. A female reporter who travels extensively to collect information for news stories, or to carry out other time-consuming or laborious tasks. Cf. legman n. 1, legwork n. 3a.

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1941 Paris (Texas) News 24 Aug. 12/5 If Carole Landis ever decides to try newspaper work she'll be a cinch for a job as a leg-woman.

1960 M. G. Eberhart Jury of One (1961) i. 9 An old school friend, a fashion writer, had needed an assistant, a leg woman.

1976 D. S. Davis Death in Life xvii. 142 A female legman (legwoman?) for the columnist with the two p.m. deadline came by.

2005 S. Ware It’s One O’Clock i. 27 Just as important to the success of the show was leg woman Janice Devine, who was in charge of doing the background research.

2. A woman employed to perform various (generally menial or unskilled) tasks, typically involving moving from place to place or providing the material enabling someone else to complete a particular task. Cf. legman n. 2, legwork n. 3b.

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1950 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 16 Oct. 8/5 Betty Mills and Caroline Chaney..addressed their legwomen on the evening of setting up the current exhibit in the Children's Museum.

1962 Times 6 Dec. 15 Miss Marple..has been too frail to do much physical detecting herself, and her leg-woman is Mrs. Bantry, the former owner of Gossington Hall.

1971 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 2 Nov. 2/4 My husband couldn't go and sent me as his leg woman.

2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 Jan. 12 Denzel Washington plays a paralysed forensic detective who enlists NYPD rookie Angelina Jolie as his legwoman in the hunt for a killer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	leg woman
释义	leg womann. Brit. /ˈlɛɡ wʊmən/, U.S. /ˈlɛɡ ˌwʊmən/ Inflections: Plural leg women. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: leg n., woman n. Etymology: < leg n. + woman n., after legman n., legwork n. Originally U.S. 1. Journalism. A female reporter who travels extensively to collect information for news stories, or to carry out other time-consuming or laborious tasks. Cf. legman n. 1, legwork n. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > gatherer of information runner1744 legman1897 leg woman1941 1941 Paris (Texas) News 24 Aug. 12/5 If Carole Landis ever decides to try newspaper work she'll be a cinch for a job as a leg-woman. 1960 M. G. Eberhart Jury of One (1961) i. 9 An old school friend, a fashion writer, had needed an assistant, a leg woman. 1976 D. S. Davis Death in Life xvii. 142 A female legman (legwoman?) for the columnist with the two p.m. deadline came by. 2005 S. Ware It’s One O’Clock i. 27 Just as important to the success of the show was leg woman Janice Devine, who was in charge of doing the background research. 2. A woman employed to perform various (generally menial or unskilled) tasks, typically involving moving from place to place or providing the material enabling someone else to complete a particular task. Cf. legman n. 2, legwork n. 3b. ΚΠ 1950 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 16 Oct. 8/5 Betty Mills and Caroline Chaney..addressed their legwomen on the evening of setting up the current exhibit in the Children's Museum. 1962 Times 6 Dec. 15 Miss Marple..has been too frail to do much physical detecting herself, and her leg-woman is Mrs. Bantry, the former owner of Gossington Hall. 1971 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 2 Nov. 2/4 My husband couldn't go and sent me as his leg woman. 2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 Jan. 12 Denzel Washington plays a paralysed forensic detective who enlists NYPD rookie Angelina Jolie as his legwoman in the hunt for a killer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1941
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