Meaning of be-leggined | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of belegginged.

alt-of, dated, not-comparable

Examples

“What made this youth remarkable was that he was clad in all the pomp and glory of war, he was be-spurred, be-campaigned hatted, be-leggined, and be-sabred, and be-trussed like any old swashbuckler out of Old Whitechapel.”

“Right worthily do they with their be-goggled and be-leggined riders “put-put-put” over our streets.”

“I grabbed one of her be-leggined ankles and yanked her to the ground and glared savagely as she would have opened her mouth to scream.”

“The two and three-year-olds, who come at nine o’clock, arrive be-leggined and be-muffled, and the teachers have become adept at manipulating zippers.”

“Thersites, who is a sort of one-man chorus for Shakespeare in his barbed commentary on war, lechery and assorted follies of man, shows up in the person of John Neville as a be-leggined, Norfolk-jacketed combination of early war correspondent and photographer.”

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