单词 | badger-legged |
释义 | > as lemmasbadger-legged badger-legged adj. rare having legs of unequal length (as the badger was once popularly supposed to have); (also more generally) having deformed legs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of legs > having leglessc1390 bow-legged1552 crook-legged1580 shackle-hammed1592 baker-kneed1611 baker-legged1611 buckle-hammed1629 out-shinned1682 bandy-legged1688 crooked-legged1691 shackled-ham'd1733 badger-legged1738 tailor-legged1768 knock-kneed1774 scissor-legged1880 1738 L'Estrange's Life Aesop i, in tr. Aesop et al. Fables (rev. ed.) 1 His Body [was] crooked,..big-belly'd, badger-legg'd [earlier edd. baker-legg'd]. 1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality ix. 224 Persons..who are badger-legged or gibbous, often suffer from..affective trouble. 1948 M. Carbery & E. Grey Herts. Heritage 59 Badger-legged, also bandy-legged, bow-legged: ‘'e's that badger-legged, 'e c'ld stop a pig in a twitchel.’ 2004 Re: Depression Hits Robinson Crusoe's Island in alt.activism (Usenet newsgroup) 26 Sept. This ‘enthusiast of progress’ in ‘Madame Bovary’ tried to get this badger-legged guy to walk normally. < as lemmas |
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