Word info

two-legged

Speech parts

1. two-legged - Noun

2. two-legged - Adjective

Meaning

two-legged (not comparable)

Having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages.
two-legged animals
two-legged shears

two-legged (plural two-leggeds)

Someone or something with two legs, especially human beings.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

two legged

Examples

I, at any rate, acknowledge only one master, not forty-five million two-legged sheep, or two thousand million, but simply and absolutely the spirit. Olaf Stapledon

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words. Chanakya

Of all the created things or beings in the universe, it is the two-legged men alone, who if they purify and humiliate themselves, may become one with - or may know - Wakan-Tanka. Black Elk

[re a woman on TV on 'Wheel of Fortune'] She makes you proud to be a two-legged mammal. John Updike

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say 'I have loved as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog.' And yet we call them 'only brutes' Henry Ward Beecher

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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