no-legged
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something without legs, such as a snake or a rock.
Example Sentences
- ""I told you so," grumbled the downfallen hero, without making an effort to rise : " I told you there was no man in his sober senses could manage a two-legged chair ; for a two- legged chair is like a one-legged man, or rather a no-legged man --""
- "There was no one behind me so I looked down, and the one-eyed, no-legged man from earlier that day was peering up at me from his skateboard and I tried to fix my stare on his one good eye."
- "For the one or no-legged amputees, they started breakdancing on the floor."
- "In other words, people engage in communicative relationships not only with other people, but also with four-leggeds, one-leggeds, and no-leggeds, with trees, plants, and rocks, with the sun, moon, and stars, ..."
- "The arrow, for instance, combines gifts of stone for the head (from no-leggeds, who live within the Earth), wood for the shaft (from one-leggeds, trees, who unite Earth and Sky, and resembling the bole), and feathers (from two-leggeds, who live in the Sky); the stone is its head (Thoreau called arrowheads "fossilized thoughts"), the shaft its body, the feathers its wings."
- "The no-leggeds, the snakes, also joined the gathering."
Etymology
From no + legged.