leggyn.

Brit.

/ˈlɛɡi/, U.S.

/ˈlɛɡi/

Forms: 1900s– leggie, 1900s– leggy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: leg n., -y suffix⁶.

Etymology: < leg n. (compare leg n. 23) + -y suffix⁶, after leg break n.

Cricket.

1. A leg-break delivery.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball

full toss1826

long hop1830

twister1832

bail ball1833

bailer1833

grubber1837

slow ball1838

wide1838

ground ball1839

shooter1843

slower ball1846

twiddler1847

creeper1848

lob1851

sneak1851

sneaker1851

slow1854

bumper1855

teaser1856

daisy-cutter1857

popper1857

yorker1861

sharpshooter1863

headball1866

screwball1866

underhand1866

skimmerc1868

grub1870

ramrod1870

raymonder1870

round-armer1871

grass cutter1876

short pitch1877

leg break1878

lob ball1880

off-break1883

donkey-drop1888

tice1888

fast break1889

leg-breaker1892

kicker1894

spinner1895

wrong 'un1897

googly1903

fizzer1904

dolly1906

short ball1911

wrong 'un1911

bosie1912

bouncer1913

flyer1913

percher1913

finger-spinner1920

inswinger1920

outswinger1920

swinger1920

off-spinner1924

away swinger1925

Chinaman1929

overspinner1930

tweaker1938

riser1944

leg-cutter1949

seamer1952

leggy1954

off-cutter1955

squatter1955

flipper1959

lifter1959

cutter1960

beamer1961

loosener1962

doosra1999

1954 Spectator 5 Mar. 266/2 ‘That's the google,’ he would say, as the ball left the hand: or ‘That's your leggy.’

1984 Listener 10 Mar. 26 Chris Smith asked Billy Ibadulla how to play leg-spin. Ibadulla..did what he could, including bowling him some leggies.

1996 B. Cattell Big Test ii. 19 He bowls off-spin, although he doesn't turn the ball nearly as much as Tylan's leggies.

1999 Sun 22 June 33/1 The sight of those huge-turning leggies sent the South Africans into panic.

2007 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 11 July 42 I asked him to bowl leggies..and he landed each ball of the over exactly on the spot and made it turn.

2. A leg-break bowler.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > types of bowler

slow bowler1823

fast bowler1828

bias bowler1854

round-arm1858

demon bowler1861

left-hander1864

chucker1882

lobster1889

slow1895

leg-breaker1904

speed merchant1913

leg-spinner1920

spin bowler1920

off-spinner1924

quickie1934

tweaker1935

swerve-bowler1944

pace bowler1947

seam bowler1948

spinner1951

seamer1952

wrist-spinner1957

outswinger1958

swing bowler1958

quick1960

stock bowler1968

paceman1972

leggy1979

1979 Canberra Times 13 Jan. 43/5 Both have similar balance to their attacks—three pace bowlers, an off spinner and a leggie.

1988 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 2 Sept. 49 When was the last time that six leggies worked together at any Australian ground, the romantics pondered?

1995 B. Catell Bound for Glory (2007) xii. 100 ‘He's a good leggie,’ said Frankie, as his first ball had Clive groping at thin air outside the off-stump.

2013 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 59 Australia's most successful spin bowlers have all been leggies with Shane Warne bagging 708 wickets, Richie Benaud 248, [etc.].

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

leggyadj.

Brit.

/ˈlɛɡi/, U.S.

/ˈlɛɡi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: leg n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < leg n. + -y suffix¹.

a. Having long legs, (sometimes) spec. excessively or disproportionately so.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [adjective] > types of > having

jamby?a1400

well-legged1566

spindle-shankedc1600

spindle-shank1604

post-legged1608

splay-legged1638

duck-legged1650

stalk-legged1659

long-limbed1660

sharp-shinned1704

spindle-legged1710

leggy1776

red-legged1817

flamingo-legged1862

thick-legged1873

split-up1874

pin-legged1884

lank-legged1906

straddly1921

1776 W. Ward New Treat. Method Breeding, Breaking, & Training, Horses 60 They are generally very leggy, long, loose made, and by no means so strong as when they advance farther in years.

1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 17 If you are a short man, you spur the saddle cloth; if you are leggy you never touch him [sc. the horse] at all.

1827 Sporting Mag. 20 170 Great numbers of our racers..have always been too leggy.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 138 He looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road.

1916 C. S. Plumb Judging Farm Animals l. 526 Formerly the Hampshire inclined to be somewhat leggy, but present day type pigs of the breed are not subject to special criticism in this regard.

1930 O. Lattimore High Tartary xii. 119 In a moment a shape came out of the dark; a leggy Qazaq youth riding one wild-eyed pony and leading another.

1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave (1989) ii. 40 His wife's wide bed..severely separated from his..by a night table on which sprawled a leggy rag doll with a black face.

2002 J. Cohen & I. Stewart Evolving Alien vii. 167 Wind-scorpions are the most leggy, hairy, fangy, scrabbly creatures you could ever hope not to find in your desert tent.

b. slang (originally U.S.). Of a woman: having attractively long, slender legs. Sometimes with a more general implication of sexual attractiveness.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > causing sexual excitement or desire > specifically of a woman

lush1891

sexy1912

slutty1912

foxy1913

leggy1927

floozy?1930

sultry1940

nubile1944

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [adjective] > types of > having > of a woman

leggy1927

1927 C. Woolrich Children of Ritz i. 17 Angela reappeared in an enormous broad-brimmed hat that made her look like one of the Gish sisters... And she was leggier than ever.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §427/2 Well-formed young woman,..leggy femme.

1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 13 Nov. 8/5 (caption) They missed the chance of a close-up of three leggy lovelies who called in at a city supermarket.

1984 Listener 12 Jan. 30/1 The celebrity is invariably male, assisted inevitably by a couple of leggy dollybirds.

2001 Sun 27 Jan. 45/1 She's a leggy blonde and I couldn't believe it when she showed an interest in me.

2. Of a plant: having a disproportionately long stem.In quot. 1860 probably a conscious extended use of sense 1a.

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the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [adjective] > having a stem or stalk > of certain size, shape, length, or colour

gross1578

zigzag1793

thick-stemmed1847

leggy1860

1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table x. 310 The white meeting-house, and the row of youthful and leggy trees before it.

1891 Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station No. 32. 156 Drawn or so-called ‘leggy’ [tomato] plants usually give poor results in the field.

1932 Times Educ. Suppl. 9 July 267/4 If plants are crowded under glass they will grow ‘leggy’.

1965 H. G. W. Fogg Small Greenhouse v. 39 Put the boxes, etc., on a shelf close up under the glass of the greenhouse, to prevent the seedlings from becoming drawn and ‘leggy’.

1993 Martha Stewart Living Dec. 38/1 To keep the plants from getting too leggy or out of shape, simply pinch off wayward leaves and save them for the next good use.

2006 Scots Mag. June 602/1 Pansies became leggy and were attacked by slugs.

3. slang. Characterized by a display of legs, esp. featuring dancing girls in revealing costumes.

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1866 Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 7/3 This festival..has been pitiably vulgarised..by Christmas numbers of periodicals, Christmas concerts, leggy burlesques.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Oct. 1/2 ‘Leggy’ burlesques.

1956 People 13 May 4/4 She viewed the leggy posing of the starlets with aristocratic disapproval.

1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Oct. c2 Four can-can dancers did a leggy cabaret dance to music.

2013 Nottingham Post (Nexis) 24 July 27 In fact, it's a pleasingly leggy show.

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

单词	leggy
释义	leggyn. Brit. /ˈlɛɡi/, U.S. /ˈlɛɡi/ Forms: 1900s– leggie, 1900s– leggy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: leg n., -y suffix⁶. Etymology: < leg n. (compare leg n. 23) + -y suffix⁶, after leg break n. Cricket. 1. A leg-break delivery. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball full toss1826 long hop1830 twister1832 bail ball1833 bailer1833 grubber1837 slow ball1838 wide1838 ground ball1839 shooter1843 slower ball1846 twiddler1847 creeper1848 lob1851 sneak1851 sneaker1851 slow1854 bumper1855 teaser1856 daisy-cutter1857 popper1857 yorker1861 sharpshooter1863 headball1866 screwball1866 underhand1866 skimmerc1868 grub1870 ramrod1870 raymonder1870 round-armer1871 grass cutter1876 short pitch1877 leg break1878 lob ball1880 off-break1883 donkey-drop1888 tice1888 fast break1889 leg-breaker1892 kicker1894 spinner1895 wrong 'un1897 googly1903 fizzer1904 dolly1906 short ball1911 wrong 'un1911 bosie1912 bouncer1913 flyer1913 percher1913 finger-spinner1920 inswinger1920 outswinger1920 swinger1920 off-spinner1924 away swinger1925 Chinaman1929 overspinner1930 tweaker1938 riser1944 leg-cutter1949 seamer1952 leggy1954 off-cutter1955 squatter1955 flipper1959 lifter1959 cutter1960 beamer1961 loosener1962 doosra1999 1954 Spectator 5 Mar. 266/2 ‘That's the google,’ he would say, as the ball left the hand: or ‘That's your leggy.’ 1984 Listener 10 Mar. 26 Chris Smith asked Billy Ibadulla how to play leg-spin. Ibadulla..did what he could, including bowling him some leggies. 1996 B. Cattell Big Test ii. 19 He bowls off-spin, although he doesn't turn the ball nearly as much as Tylan's leggies. 1999 Sun 22 June 33/1 The sight of those huge-turning leggies sent the South Africans into panic. 2007 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 11 July 42 I asked him to bowl leggies..and he landed each ball of the over exactly on the spot and made it turn. 2. A leg-break bowler. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > types of bowler slow bowler1823 fast bowler1828 bias bowler1854 round-arm1858 demon bowler1861 left-hander1864 chucker1882 lobster1889 slow1895 leg-breaker1904 speed merchant1913 leg-spinner1920 spin bowler1920 off-spinner1924 quickie1934 tweaker1935 swerve-bowler1944 pace bowler1947 seam bowler1948 spinner1951 seamer1952 wrist-spinner1957 outswinger1958 swing bowler1958 quick1960 stock bowler1968 paceman1972 leggy1979 1979 Canberra Times 13 Jan. 43/5 Both have similar balance to their attacks—three pace bowlers, an off spinner and a leggie. 1988 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 2 Sept. 49 When was the last time that six leggies worked together at any Australian ground, the romantics pondered? 1995 B. Catell Bound for Glory (2007) xii. 100 ‘He's a good leggie,’ said Frankie, as his first ball had Clive groping at thin air outside the off-stump. 2013 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 59 Australia's most successful spin bowlers have all been leggies with Shane Warne bagging 708 wickets, Richie Benaud 248, [etc.]. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). leggyadj. Brit. /ˈlɛɡi/, U.S. /ˈlɛɡi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: leg n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < leg n. + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Having long legs, (sometimes) spec. excessively or disproportionately so. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [adjective] > types of > having jamby?a1400 well-legged1566 spindle-shankedc1600 spindle-shank1604 post-legged1608 splay-legged1638 duck-legged1650 stalk-legged1659 long-limbed1660 sharp-shinned1704 spindle-legged1710 leggy1776 red-legged1817 flamingo-legged1862 thick-legged1873 split-up1874 pin-legged1884 lank-legged1906 straddly1921 1776 W. Ward New Treat. Method Breeding, Breaking, & Training, Horses 60 They are generally very leggy, long, loose made, and by no means so strong as when they advance farther in years. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 17 If you are a short man, you spur the saddle cloth; if you are leggy you never touch him [sc. the horse] at all. 1827 Sporting Mag. 20 170 Great numbers of our racers..have always been too leggy. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 138 He looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road. 1916 C. S. Plumb Judging Farm Animals l. 526 Formerly the Hampshire inclined to be somewhat leggy, but present day type pigs of the breed are not subject to special criticism in this regard. 1930 O. Lattimore High Tartary xii. 119 In a moment a shape came out of the dark; a leggy Qazaq youth riding one wild-eyed pony and leading another. 1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave (1989) ii. 40 His wife's wide bed..severely separated from his..by a night table on which sprawled a leggy rag doll with a black face. 2002 J. Cohen & I. Stewart Evolving Alien vii. 167 Wind-scorpions are the most leggy, hairy, fangy, scrabbly creatures you could ever hope not to find in your desert tent. b. slang (originally U.S.). Of a woman: having attractively long, slender legs. Sometimes with a more general implication of sexual attractiveness. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > causing sexual excitement or desire > specifically of a woman lush1891 sexy1912 slutty1912 foxy1913 leggy1927 floozy?1930 sultry1940 nubile1944 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [adjective] > types of > having > of a woman leggy1927 1927 C. Woolrich Children of Ritz i. 17 Angela reappeared in an enormous broad-brimmed hat that made her look like one of the Gish sisters... And she was leggier than ever. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §427/2 Well-formed young woman,..leggy femme. 1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 13 Nov. 8/5 (caption) They missed the chance of a close-up of three leggy lovelies who called in at a city supermarket. 1984 Listener 12 Jan. 30/1 The celebrity is invariably male, assisted inevitably by a couple of leggy dollybirds. 2001 Sun 27 Jan. 45/1 She's a leggy blonde and I couldn't believe it when she showed an interest in me. 2. Of a plant: having a disproportionately long stem.In quot. 1860 probably a conscious extended use of sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [adjective] > having a stem or stalk > of certain size, shape, length, or colour gross1578 zigzag1793 thick-stemmed1847 leggy1860 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table x. 310 The white meeting-house, and the row of youthful and leggy trees before it. 1891 Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station No. 32. 156 Drawn or so-called ‘leggy’ [tomato] plants usually give poor results in the field. 1932 Times Educ. Suppl. 9 July 267/4 If plants are crowded under glass they will grow ‘leggy’. 1965 H. G. W. Fogg Small Greenhouse v. 39 Put the boxes, etc., on a shelf close up under the glass of the greenhouse, to prevent the seedlings from becoming drawn and ‘leggy’. 1993 Martha Stewart Living Dec. 38/1 To keep the plants from getting too leggy or out of shape, simply pinch off wayward leaves and save them for the next good use. 2006 Scots Mag. June 602/1 Pansies became leggy and were attacked by slugs. 3. slang. Characterized by a display of legs, esp. featuring dancing girls in revealing costumes. ΚΠ 1866 Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 7/3 This festival..has been pitiably vulgarised..by Christmas numbers of periodicals, Christmas concerts, leggy burlesques. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Oct. 1/2 ‘Leggy’ burlesques. 1956 People 13 May 4/4 She viewed the leggy posing of the starlets with aristocratic disapproval. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Oct. c2 Four can-can dancers did a leggy cabaret dance to music. 2013 Nottingham Post (Nexis) 24 July 27 In fact, it's a pleasingly leggy show. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1954adj.1776
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