Examples
“The Gimp Parade: Not "legless": Ten pairs of legs!”
“Thanks to him and black_samvara i am never going to live down the 'legless' comment ... although ... if it means juffles kneeling in front of me more often then well ... who am i to complain?”
“That would be like giving one particular genus of fish a name meaning "legless", "hairless" or "cold-blooded" when all fish share those traits.”
“I think "legless" is a suitable term to describe our state, although Hughie and I have managed to carry Paul from the pub to the golf course, and dropped him only once.”
“One legend says that he sat so long in contemplation that his legs fell off, and a kind of legless doll which is a favourite plaything in Japan is still called by his name.”
“A 'legless' hedgehog was found rolling around an orchard after getting drunk by gorging on fermented apples.”
“To quote Harold: "It may well be that the expression 'legless' came from drinking rough cider.”
“As someone who gets travel sick on occasions (never on a plane or boat though), I have to say I have never lost the use of my legs (I've never been legless, so to speak) when I was ill.”
I always feel sick when I see David Amess, so perhaps he caught sight of a mirror ?
“Only Germany and France, legless, and half-eaten, will survive”
“P.S. Favorite dead body description of the book: “He looked at a headless woman, a legless man, at something so torn open it had become a flesh canoe filled with blood.””
“Cell” by Stephen King (Scribner, 2006) « The BookBanter Blog
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘legless’.
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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Blootered
Slang words for people who are drunk
rat-arsed, merry, mortal, out of your tree, pissed, plastered, legless, ratted, soused, drunk, inebriated
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anatomopeia
Sounds like you are .........
green-fingered, lily-livered, yellow-bellied, bleary-eyed, hare-brained, loose-tongued, tongue-tied, sure-footed, two-faced, double-jointed, light-fingered, bone idle and 71 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, L
lisle, lahar, loupe, labret, latten, luster, lagomorph, lamentation, limicole, lunge, lobtail, latifolious and 182 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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A Dram Too Many
notanotherjazzpoet had a very promising list which appears to have petered out. Yes, tosspots: descriptions of being drunk. Walk five metres on the white line then leave your suggestions right here.
drunk, guttered, pissed, baked, three sails in th..., smashed, paralytic, out of your tree, hammered, bombed, glazed, blotto and 336 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Not 100%
Unwell, intoxicated, or whatever.
squiffy, under the weather, not himself, three sheets to t..., legless, woozy, tipsy, moroculous, pie eyed, stocious, drunk, hungover and 1 more...
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Tunie: And the Band Played Waltzing M...
I used to sing this as a lullaby to my spawn—till said spawn grew big enough to understand the words, and asked me to sing something else.
Written by Eric Bogle, c. 1971.
...billabong, ghosts, no one, fewer, the call, question, what are they mar..., forgotten war, forgotten, sore, stiff, bent and 66 more...
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There's a glass of punch below your f...
buzzed, tanked, drunk, smashed, trashed, puzzled, tore up, wasted, lubricated, tipsy, obliterated, tossed and 21 more...
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