legless

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legless

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From Middle English legles, equivalent to leg + -less.

adjective more legless · most legless

  1. not comparable Without legs. a legless invertebrate

    Similar: no-legged · Opposite: legged

  2. slang Too drunk to stand.

    Similar: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten

  3. Going nowhere. That idea was legless.

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adj without legs

中文無腿的 /无腿的 wútuǐ de
Françaiscul-de-jatte
Deutschbeinlos
Русскийбезно́гий beznógij

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@misc{legless_2026,
  title = {legless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/legless},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}