long legn.

Brit.

/ˈlɒŋ lɛɡ/, U.S.

/ˈlɔŋ ˌlɛɡ/,

/ˈlɑŋ ˌlɛɡ/, West African English

/ˈlɔŋɡ ˌlɛɡ/

Forms: see long adj.¹ and n.¹ and leg n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.¹, leg n.

Etymology: < long adj.¹ + leg n.

†1. An insect (not identified) said by early writers to be harmful to cattle; = buprestis n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > harmful to cows

buprestisa1398

long leg1585

felter1607

burn-cow1658

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 76 Buprestis,..a venemous flie like a beetle, and hurtfull to cattell: a longe legge: a wag-leg. [No formal equivalent of the headword in the Latin original.]

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bupreste, the venomous blacke flie called, a long-leg, or wag-leg.

1751 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (ed. 3) I. at Beetle The venomous beetle, or long leg, Afilus.

†2. In singular and (usually) in plural. A wading bird of the genus Himantopus; a stilt. Obsolete.Cf. long-legged plover n. at long-legged adj. Compounds, Longshanks n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun]

i-witc888

anyitOE

understandinga1050

ferec1175

skillwisenessa1200

quaintisec1300

brainc1325

cunning1340

reder1340

cunningnessa1400

sentencec1400

intelligence?1435

speculation1471

ingeny1474

cunningheadc1475

capacity1485

pregnancyc1487

dexterity1527

pregnance?1533

shift1542

wittiness1543

ingeniousness1555

conceitedness1576

pate1598

conceit1604

ingeniosity1607

dexterousness1622

talent1622

ingenuousness1628

solertiousnessa1649

ingenuity1651

partedness1654

brightness1655

solerty1656

prettiness1674

long head1694

long lega1705

cleverness1755

smartness1800

cleverality1828

brain power1832

knowledgeability1834

braininess1876

cerebrality1901

a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) i. 190 Himantopus Plinii Aldrov... Long-legs.

1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 4 (heading) Long-legged plover. Long-shanks, or Long-leg.

1817 T. Forster Synoptical Catal. Brit. Birds 25 Charadrius himantopus, Longlegged Plover, Longshanks, or Longlegs.

1854 T. M. Brewer Wilson's Amer. Ornithol. 540 They [sc. avocets] flew around the shallow pools exactly in the manner of the Long-Legs, uttering the like sharp note of click, click, click.

1871 F. O. Morris Nat. Hist. Nests & Eggs Brit. Birds (ed. 2) III. 26 (heading) Stilt. Black-winged stilt. Stilt plover. Long-legs.

3. In plural. An insect or other invertebrate with very long slender legs: spec. a crane fly (family Tipulidae and related families), or a harvestman or opilionid. Now only in daddy-long-legs n. and similar compounds.In quots. 1789, 1872 apparently with plural sense.See also granddaddy-long-legs n. at granddaddy n. Compounds, harry-long-legs n. at Harry n.² Compounds 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Tipulidae > member of (crane-fly)

crane-fly1658

harry-long-legs1676

tailor1682

long legs1721

father-long-legs1742

Tipula1752

tommy-long-legs1800

Tom Tailor1800

meadow crane fly1813

jenny-spinner1817

daddy-long-legs1829

spinner-fly1848

granddaddy-long-legs1858

tipulid1893

1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 131 The Long Legs, which is of this Tribe, has its Body undivided, and no sign of any Head no more than the rest.

1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne xxxv. 217 Green corn, plants, and flowers, are not so much injured by them as by many species of coleoptera (scarabs), and tipulæ (long-legs) in their larva, or grub-state.

1806 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VI. ii. 374 This [sc. the crane fly Tipula (later Pedicia) rivosa] is popularly known by the title of Long-Legs.

1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 415 It..differs in having many more joints to the tarsi, approaching thus the true Phalangia, or long-legs.

4. Cricket. A fielding position in the outfield between deep fine leg and deep square leg; a fielder occupying this position.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > fielders by position

middle wicket1772

long-stop1773

second stop1773

stop1773

long fieldsman1790

long field?1801

third man1801

outscout1805

leg1816

point1816

slip1816

backstop1819

long fielder1835

long leg1835

long field off1837

short leg1843

square leg1849

cover-point1850

long-stopper1851

middle-off1851

cover-slip1854

long off1854

left fielder1860

short square1860

mid-off1865

extra cover (point)1867

deep-fielder1870

mid-on1870

cover1897

leg trap1897

infield1898

deep field1900

slipper1903

slip fieldsman1906

midwicket1909

infieldsman1910

slip-catcher1920

infielder1927

leg slip1956

1835 Bell's Life in London 13 Sept. He gave Clark, who had been lying out a long leg man, a catch, which..he missed.

1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 44 Long Leg must be occupied by a good thrower.

1888 R. H. Lyttelton in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. 39 There is one hit in particular that in these days is very seldom seen—that is, the smite to long-leg with a horizontal bat.

1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vii. 105 The first ball..must have lighted upon a bare patch among the long grass near long-leg.

1976 Times 20 May 14/4 Down at long leg Howarth held one swirling in the wind that was highly missable.

2007 Wisden Cricketer July 64/2 West Indies did not help themselves, dropping Collingwood in the gully and at long leg.

5. Nautical slang. In a boat or ship: the fact of having a deeper draught at one end of the vessel than at the other. Also more generally: a deep draught. Cf. long-legged adj. 2. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1882 Cent. Mag. July 352/1 The Baltimore clipper was a ship..with a deep draught aft, or what is called a long leg.

1902 Atlantic Monthly July 47/1 The typical small yacht of that country [sc. Boston] has what the seaman call a ‘long leg’. This means that she is built with a healthy body going well down into the water.

1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 85 Long leg, a big difference in the draught forward and aft in a sailing ship.

1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 137 Any sailing vessel that draws a lot of water is said to have a long leg.

6. West African slang. In singular and plural. Corruption, bribery.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe > bribery

meedc1275

corruptionc1425

bribing?c1524

suborning?1532

bribery1560

budding1640

subornation1670

palmistry1828

palm-greasing1832

boodling1886

a greasing of palms1889

sugaring1891

fix1929

pay-off1930

schmear1950

long leg1967

1967 Afr. Affairs 66 4 That poisonous mixture of nepotism and graft known by Nigerians as ‘long legs’.

1971 A. Kirk-Greene in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 144 ‘Long legs’ is a commonplace [in West Africa] for using influence in high places to secure a service.

1973 Listener 14 June 782/3 ‘Long leg’ is a Nigerian colloquialism denoting corruption.

1995 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 33 496 Many..will have felt the temptation ‘to pay over the odds’ in order to avoid everyday hassles. Some have got used to using ‘long leg’, ‘kalabule’, or ‘bottom power’.

Compounds

attributive in sense 3. Cf. long-legged adj. 1. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1838 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 51/1 Mr. Bailward made a statement of the ravages committed by the larvæ of the Harry long-leg fly.

1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 65/1 The ‘set’ upon which we had intruded was an assemblage of those Tipulidan, or long-leg gnats, which have been named Tell-tales.

1863 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 Sept. 162/1 Such an adventure..would open his eyes very wide to the solid service they render as earwig, beetle, long-leg, and green-fly destroyers.

2005 K. R. T. Giambastini Ploughman's Son v. 38 A long-leg spider silently tiptoed toward the cold clay hearth.

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

单词	long leg
释义	long legn. Brit. /ˈlɒŋ lɛɡ/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋ ˌlɛɡ/, /ˈlɑŋ ˌlɛɡ/, West African English /ˈlɔŋɡ ˌlɛɡ/ Forms: see long adj.¹ and n.¹ and leg n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.¹, leg n. Etymology: < long adj.¹ + leg n. †1. An insect (not identified) said by early writers to be harmful to cattle; = buprestis n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > harmful to cows buprestisa1398 long leg1585 felter1607 burn-cow1658 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 76 Buprestis,..a venemous flie like a beetle, and hurtfull to cattell: a longe legge: a wag-leg. [No formal equivalent of the headword in the Latin original.] 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bupreste, the venomous blacke flie called, a long-leg, or wag-leg. 1751 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (ed. 3) I. at Beetle The venomous beetle, or long leg, Afilus. †2. In singular and (usually) in plural. A wading bird of the genus Himantopus; a stilt. Obsolete.Cf. long-legged plover n. at long-legged adj. Compounds, Longshanks n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] i-witc888 anyitOE understandinga1050 ferec1175 skillwisenessa1200 quaintisec1300 brainc1325 cunning1340 reder1340 cunningnessa1400 sentencec1400 intelligence?1435 speculation1471 ingeny1474 cunningheadc1475 capacity1485 pregnancyc1487 dexterity1527 pregnance?1533 shift1542 wittiness1543 ingeniousness1555 conceitedness1576 pate1598 conceit1604 ingeniosity1607 dexterousness1622 talent1622 ingenuousness1628 solertiousnessa1649 ingenuity1651 partedness1654 brightness1655 solerty1656 prettiness1674 long head1694 long lega1705 cleverness1755 smartness1800 cleverality1828 brain power1832 knowledgeability1834 braininess1876 cerebrality1901 a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) i. 190 Himantopus Plinii Aldrov... Long-legs. 1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 4 (heading) Long-legged plover. Long-shanks, or Long-leg. 1817 T. Forster Synoptical Catal. Brit. Birds 25 Charadrius himantopus, Longlegged Plover, Longshanks, or Longlegs. 1854 T. M. Brewer Wilson's Amer. Ornithol. 540 They [sc. avocets] flew around the shallow pools exactly in the manner of the Long-Legs, uttering the like sharp note of click, click, click. 1871 F. O. Morris Nat. Hist. Nests & Eggs Brit. Birds (ed. 2) III. 26 (heading) Stilt. Black-winged stilt. Stilt plover. Long-legs. 3. In plural. An insect or other invertebrate with very long slender legs: spec. a crane fly (family Tipulidae and related families), or a harvestman or opilionid. Now only in daddy-long-legs n. and similar compounds.In quots. 1789, 1872 apparently with plural sense.See also granddaddy-long-legs n. at granddaddy n. Compounds, harry-long-legs n. at Harry n.² Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Tipulidae > member of (crane-fly) crane-fly1658 harry-long-legs1676 tailor1682 long legs1721 father-long-legs1742 Tipula1752 tommy-long-legs1800 Tom Tailor1800 meadow crane fly1813 jenny-spinner1817 daddy-long-legs1829 spinner-fly1848 granddaddy-long-legs1858 tipulid1893 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 131 The Long Legs, which is of this Tribe, has its Body undivided, and no sign of any Head no more than the rest. 1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne xxxv. 217 Green corn, plants, and flowers, are not so much injured by them as by many species of coleoptera (scarabs), and tipulæ (long-legs) in their larva, or grub-state. 1806 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VI. ii. 374 This [sc. the crane fly Tipula (later Pedicia) rivosa] is popularly known by the title of Long-Legs. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 415 It..differs in having many more joints to the tarsi, approaching thus the true Phalangia, or long-legs. 4. Cricket. A fielding position in the outfield between deep fine leg and deep square leg; a fielder occupying this position. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > fielders by position middle wicket1772 long-stop1773 second stop1773 stop1773 long fieldsman1790 long field?1801 third man1801 outscout1805 leg1816 point1816 slip1816 backstop1819 long fielder1835 long leg1835 long field off1837 short leg1843 square leg1849 cover-point1850 long-stopper1851 middle-off1851 cover-slip1854 long off1854 left fielder1860 short square1860 mid-off1865 extra cover (point)1867 deep-fielder1870 mid-on1870 cover1897 leg trap1897 infield1898 deep field1900 slipper1903 slip fieldsman1906 midwicket1909 infieldsman1910 slip-catcher1920 infielder1927 leg slip1956 1835 Bell's Life in London 13 Sept. He gave Clark, who had been lying out a long leg man, a catch, which..he missed. 1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 44 Long Leg must be occupied by a good thrower. 1888 R. H. Lyttelton in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. 39 There is one hit in particular that in these days is very seldom seen—that is, the smite to long-leg with a horizontal bat. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vii. 105 The first ball..must have lighted upon a bare patch among the long grass near long-leg. 1976 Times 20 May 14/4 Down at long leg Howarth held one swirling in the wind that was highly missable. 2007 Wisden Cricketer July 64/2 West Indies did not help themselves, dropping Collingwood in the gully and at long leg. 5. Nautical slang. In a boat or ship: the fact of having a deeper draught at one end of the vessel than at the other. Also more generally: a deep draught. Cf. long-legged adj. 2. Now rare. ΚΠ 1882 Cent. Mag. July 352/1 The Baltimore clipper was a ship..with a deep draught aft, or what is called a long leg. 1902 Atlantic Monthly July 47/1 The typical small yacht of that country [sc. Boston] has what the seaman call a ‘long leg’. This means that she is built with a healthy body going well down into the water. 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 85 Long leg, a big difference in the draught forward and aft in a sailing ship. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 137 Any sailing vessel that draws a lot of water is said to have a long leg. 6. West African slang. In singular and plural. Corruption, bribery. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe > bribery meedc1275 corruptionc1425 bribing?c1524 suborning?1532 bribery1560 budding1640 subornation1670 palmistry1828 palm-greasing1832 boodling1886 a greasing of palms1889 sugaring1891 fix1929 pay-off1930 schmear1950 long leg1967 1967 Afr. Affairs 66 4 That poisonous mixture of nepotism and graft known by Nigerians as ‘long legs’. 1971 A. Kirk-Greene in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 144 ‘Long legs’ is a commonplace [in West Africa] for using influence in high places to secure a service. 1973 Listener 14 June 782/3 ‘Long leg’ is a Nigerian colloquialism denoting corruption. 1995 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 33 496 Many..will have felt the temptation ‘to pay over the odds’ in order to avoid everyday hassles. Some have got used to using ‘long leg’, ‘kalabule’, or ‘bottom power’. Compounds attributive in sense 3. Cf. long-legged adj. 1. Now rare. ΚΠ 1838 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 51/1 Mr. Bailward made a statement of the ravages committed by the larvæ of the Harry long-leg fly. 1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 65/1 The ‘set’ upon which we had intruded was an assemblage of those Tipulidan, or long-leg gnats, which have been named Tell-tales. 1863 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 Sept. 162/1 Such an adventure..would open his eyes very wide to the solid service they render as earwig, beetle, long-leg, and green-fly destroyers. 2005 K. R. T. Giambastini Ploughman's Son v. 38 A long-leg spider silently tiptoed toward the cold clay hearth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585
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