leggined
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]leggined (not comparable)
- Dated form of legginged.
- 1836, [Charles Hooton], “A Peep at a Country Fair.—Bilberry Very Unexpectedly Meets with His Mother, His Father, and Half-a-Dozen Brothers and Sisters.—Their Interview.—Afterwards He Is Discharged from His Service.—Resolves on Joining His Father as an Itinerant Player.”, in Adventures of Bilberry Thurland, volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 72:
- In the day-time, likewise, they must have remarked the in-rush from all country roads, of top-boot farmers, leggined horse-dealers, fresh and sweet country damsels, with their awkward smockfrock sweethearts, cheek by jowl, who now and then, perhaps, emboldened by a cup of ale, will seize their fair ones even in the street, and perforce implant a smacking kiss upon their turned-away and glowing cheeks.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “A Pleasant Day, with an Unpleasant Termination”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, pages 187–188:
- Such was the morning, when an open carriage, in which were three Pickwickians, (Mr. Snodgrass having preferred to remain at home,) Mr. Wardle, and Mr. Trundle, with Sam Weller on the box beside the driver, pulled up by a gate at the road-side, before which stood a tall, raw-boned gamekeeper, and a half-booted, leather-leggined boy: each bearing a hag of capacious dimensions, and accompanied by a brace of pointers. […] Here the leather-leggined boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically.
- 1969 October 16, George Whittington, “Nine Disconsolate ‘Pacifists’: Moratorium Effort Here Totters, Then Collapses”, in The Clarion-Ledger, volume CXXX, number 170, Jackson, Miss., page 6:
- From First Federal, a stream of employees also start crossing North State, working their way up to the walk beside the Old Capitol, across by War Memorial with its World War I frieze of helmeted and leggined men, then around to the parking lot.