one-legged

See also: one legged

English

Etymology

From one +‎ legged.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

one-legged (not comparable)

1. Having only one leg.

   Synonyms: monoped, monopedal, uniped, unipedal

2. Of an audio signal: having a thin sound as a result of connection through only one wire of a circuit pair.
   • 2000, Philip Richard Newell, Project Studios: A More Professional Approach, page 40:

     […] obviously wrong termination is likely to lead to a thin 'one-legged' sound with significant loss of level, and/or distortion.

   • 2013, Tim Crook, The Sound Handbook, page 100:

     […] you have to bear in mind that your sound files in these circumstances will have a one legged stereo recording.

Related terms

• two-legged
• three-legged
• four-legged, etc.

Translations

having only one leg

• Belarusian: аднано́гі (adnanóhi)
• Bulgarian: еднокра́к (ednokrák)
• Czech: jednonohý
• Danish: enbenet
• Dutch: eenbenig (nl)
• Finnish: yksijalkainen (fi)
• French: unijambiste (fr)
• Georgian: ცალფეხა (calpexa), ერთფეხა (ertpexa), ერთფეხიანი (ertpexiani)
• German: einbeinig
• Greek:

  Ancient: μονοσκελής (monoskelḗs)

• Icelandic: einfættur
• Polish: jednonogi (pl)
• Portuguese: coxo (pt), perneta (pt) (Brazil)
• Russian: одноно́гий (ru) (odnonógij)
• Slovak: jednonohý
• Swedish: enbent (sv)
• Telugu: ఒంటికాలి (oṇṭikāli)
• Ukrainian: одноно́гий (odnonóhyj)

See also

• one-armed
• biped
• quadruped

Noun

one-legged (plural one-leggeds)

1. A plant, especially a tree.
   • 2000, Lois J. Einhorn, The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul, →ISBN:

     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, ...

   • 2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:

     We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.

   • 2012, James David Audlin, The Circle of Life, →ISBN, page 256:

     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.