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单词 leggery
释义

leggeryn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: leg n., -ery suffix.
Etymology: < leg n. + -ery suffix. N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (le·gəri) /ˈlɛɡərɪ/.
Obsolete.
A storehouse of legs. (In quot. with reference to the number of legs with which each animal is naturally provided.)Apparently an isolated use.Later editions of the work cited in quot. 1830 replace leggery with storehouse.
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1830 S. T. Coleridge On Constit. Church & State 212 That mundus immundus on which we, and other less scantily furnished from nature's Leggery [1830 ed. 2 Leggery; 1839 ed. 3 storehouse], crawl, delve, and nestle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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