Legging

Definition: Legging

Legging

Noun

1. A garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle).

Date "legging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Legging

Domain	Definitions
Industry	A covering for the leg(without feet)usually of leather or cloth. Source: European Union. (references)
Labor	Leather covering for the leg from the knee to ankle, or the ankle only, offering protection from welding damage and similar risks. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Legging

Synonyms: leg covering (n), legin (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Legging

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Clothing	Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Legging

English words defined with "legging": Bootikin ♦ gaiter, Galoshe ♦ Moggan ♦ Ochrea, Ochreated ♦ puttee, puttees ♦ spat, spats. (references)

Specialty definitions using "legging": legacy. (references)

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Modern Usage: Legging

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Legging Sheep (1901)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Legging

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Legging

"Legging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Legging" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	7	133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Legging

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
legging	161	legging wet	4
boot legging	27	ferret legging	4
girl legging	10	plus size legging	3
snake legging	9	stretch denim legging	3
leather legging	8	buck legging skin	3
tight legging	7	co denim legging	3
lycra legging	7	black legging	3
child legging	7	american legging native	3
spandex legging	6	compression legging	3
denim legging	6	legging military	2
stretch legging	5	legging proof snake	2
capri legging	5	lack legging	2
latex legging	5	boot cut legging	2
womens legging	4	leather legging motorcycle	2
latex legging tight wearing woman	4	latex legging tight	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Legging

Language		Translations for "legging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		gamache (gaiter, protective gaiter), ankelmanchet (protective gaiter). (various references)

Dutch		beenkap (gaiter, protective gaiter). (various references)

Esperanto		tibiingo (gaiter). (various references)

Farsi		مچ پیچ , ساق پوش (Jambeau), زنگار (Blight, Rust). (various references)

Finnish		säärystin (gaiter, protective gaiter). (various references)

French		jambière, guêtre de protection. (various references)

German		Gamasche (gaiter, puttee, putty, spat). (various references)

Greek		γκέτα (gaiter, spat, spats), περικνημίδα με περιαστραγαλίδα (protective gaiter), περικνήμη. (various references)

Indonesian		bingkap (putter). (various references)

Italian		gambale (greave, leg prosthesis). (various references)

Pig Latin		egginglay

Portuguese		polainas protectoras (protective gaiter), perneiras (protective gaiter). (various references)

Spanish		polaina (gaiter, puttee). (various references)

Swedish		damask (collapsible cover, extensible cover, gaiter, protective gaiter, spat). (various references)

Welsh		socas (gaiter). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Legging

Derivations
	Words beginning with "legging": leggings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "legging": bootlegging, doglegging. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Legging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cleggan, kegging, laggin, legeng, leggin, leggingh, Leggiuno. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Legging"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "legging" (pronounced le"ging)
4	-e" g i ng	begging, pegging.
3	-g i ng	bagging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, bugging, cataloging, cataloguing, chugging, clogging, debugging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, drugging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, gigging, hogging, hugging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, logging, lugging, mugging, nagging, plaguing, plugging, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, shrugging, slogging, slugging, snagging, snugging, tagging, tugging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Legging

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-g-g-i-l-n"
	-1 letter: egging, giggle, leggin, niggle.
	-2 letters: ingle.
	-3 letters: gien, gleg, glen, lien, line, ling.
	-4 letters: egg, eng, gel, gen, gie, gig, gin, leg, lei, lie, lin, nil.
	-5 letters: el, en, in, li, ne.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-g-g-i-l-n"
	+1 letter: leggings.
	+3 letters: beclogging, beflagging, doglegging, engagingly, rejuggling.
	+4 letters: bedraggling, bootlegging, geologizing.
	+5 letters: agglutinogen, begrudgingly, leapfrogging, staggeringly, swaggeringly, waterlogging.
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