beleggined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + leggin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The strapping blueshirted and beleggined soldiers of the Twenty-third were busy arranging to make fast for the night, while a crowd of men and boys, with an occasional member of the fair sex, gathered around and watched with curious eyes the actions of the sure enough soldiery.
ref: 1898 April 19, “First on the Grounds. Company D, Twenty-Third Regiment, Arrives. They Take Up Their Quarters at Fair Grounds. […]”, in The Times-Democrat, volume XXXV, number 14,923, New Orleans, La., page 3, column 2:
text: Just as the Oregon regiment was coming into line on the parade ground last evening and while recruits and regulars made up a good half of the crowd that blocked the roadway the fire call came sharply from the guardhouse and there was a rapid scamper of every beleggined and blue-coated spectator to his place in fire quarters.
ref: 1899 July 22, “Crowds out to See the Oregon Men on Parade. A Military Event at the Presidio. […]”, in The San Francisco Call, volume LXXXVI, number 52, San Francisco, Calif., page 7:
text: Were some of the short-skirted and beleggined beauties of the Boulevard to appear here in all their glory there would be grave danger of a revolution simply by reason of the general cerebral inflammation which would thereby be caused.
ref: 1900 February 18, “Bicycle Boom in Cuba. Havana Taking to the Sport Now with Enthusiasm. Why Cubans Should Wheel. […]”, in The Sunday State Journal, Lincoln, Neb., page 16, column 2:
text: I am satisfied that had he seen the motley beleggined crowd that rode through the streets of Modesto on Friday noon and had observed the determined look on the faces of all, he would have at once conceded that “something was up.”
ref: 1900 March 28, “Trip to Mt. Hamilton. Observations of a High School Student.”, in Daily Evening News, volume XXXI, number 99, Modesto, Calif., column 2:
text: Four beleggined kahki-clad pedestrains, leading a burro, passed through our valley the first of the week, and as they couldn’t give an intelligent answer as to their whereabouts, were supposed to be electrical engineers, running out a line from Valley Center to Loma Alta.
ref: 1906 June 1, “Moosa”, in Escondido Times, volume XX, number 32, Escondido, Calif., page 3, column 3:
text: Almost as we paused I saw coming forward the stooping figure of an Indian trailer, half naked, beleggined, moccasined, following our fresh tracks at a trot.
ref: 1907, Emerson Hough, “The Loss of Paradise”, in The Way of a Man, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 239:
text: Dear Lord, we thank thee for we have at last safely passed the day when rampant militarism and beleggined Rough Riderism seemed to typify the nation’s ideals.
ref: 1908 December 22, “Pert Paragraphs”, in The Shreveport Times, volume XXXVII, number 102, Shreveport, La., page 4, column 3:
text: I feel a surge of—not shame, but kind of dumb embarrassment and green anger when I talk with a shoulder strapped, beleggined officer-youth who is teaching the hand salute to what might have been my fellow rookies down there on the Long island sand waste.
ref: 1917 October 16, “Exempted! The Conflicting Emotions that Make Miserable a Drafted Man.”, in The Sioux City Journal, volume 47, number 248, Sioux City, Iowa, page 2, column 5:
text: Your correspondent learned enough Friday night as Clyde Milan cocked his hunting cap on the side of his head, stretched his beleggined legs before a log fire and allowed a fairly free fancy to plow into a rather late April.
ref: 1934 March 11, Henry Vance, “West and Milan Not Bothered By Game Warden; Hy Gets Some Inside Dope”, in The Birmingham News, 22nd year, number 27, Birmingham, Ala., page thirteen, column 3:
glosses: Dated form of belegginged.