two-legged

English

Etymology

From two +‎ legged.

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈtuːlɛɡd/

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• (noun) IPA^(key): /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/

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Adjective

two-legged (not comparable)

1. Having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages.

   two-legged animals    two-legged shears

   • 1766, James Beattie, “[Miscellany Poems.] The Wolf and Shepherds, a Fable.”, in Poems on Several Subjects. […], new edition, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, pages 113–114:

     And that thing made of ſound and ſhovv / VVhich mortals have miſnamed A Beau, / (But in the language of the ſky / Is call'd a tvvolegg'd butterfly) / VVill make your very heartſtrings ake / VVith loud and everlaſting clack, […]

Translations

having two legs

• Armenian: երկոտանի (hy) (erkotani)
• Belarusian: двухно́гі (dvuxnóhi)
• Bulgarian: двукра́к (dvukrák)
• Czech: dvounohý
• Dutch: tweebenig (nl)
• Finnish: kaksijalkainen (fi)
• French: bipède (fr)
• Georgian: ორფეხა (orpexa)
• German: zweibeinig
• Greek: δίποδος (el) (dípodos)
• Hungarian: kétlábú (hu), kétágú (hu), kétszárú
• Italian: bipede (it)
• Polish: dwunożny (pl)
• Russian: двуно́гий (ru) (dvunógij)
• Slovak: dvojnohý
• Ukrainian: двоно́гий (dvonóhyj)

Noun

two-legged (plural two-leggeds)

1. Someone or something with two legs, especially human beings.
   • 2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:

     The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.

   • 2011, Allan J. Hamilton, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN:

     Because most of the animals had learned to distrust the two-leggeds, they shrank back into the forest.

   • 2013, Vine Deloria, Vine Deloria, Jr., James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:

     It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds —human beings and birds— were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others.