leg
verb/leɡ/
/leɡ/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they leg | /leɡ/ /leɡ/ |
| he / she / it legs | /leɡz/ /leɡz/ |
| past simple legged | /leɡd/ /leɡd/ |
| past participle legged | /leɡd/ /leɡd/ |
| -ing form legging | /ˈleɡɪŋ/ /ˈleɡɪŋ/ |
Word OriginMiddle English (superseding shank): from Old Norse leggr (compare with Danish læg ‘calf (of the leg)’), of Germanic origin.
Idioms
leg it
- (especially British English, informal) to run, especially in order to escape from somebody
- We saw the police coming and legged it down the road.
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