legging

English

A woman wearing black leggings

Alternative forms

• leggin (dated)

Etymology

From leg +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡ.ɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɡɪŋ

Noun

legging (plural leggings)

1. A covering, usually of leather, worn from knee to ankle.
2. Stretchy tight-fitting pants often worn by women or for exercise.
3. One of the legs of a pair of trousers.

   Take the legging and turn up the cuff.

4. The process of putting a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
   • 2000, Michael Williams, Amy Hoffman, Fundamentals of Options Market, McGraw Hill Professional, page 128:

     As a practical matter, you cannot put on these positions simultaneously at reasonable prices. In order to achieve these positions at a reasonable risk/reward profile, you must put the positions in a series of separate trades. This process is called legging.

Derived terms

• belegginged
• ferret-legging
• jeggings
• legginged
• meggings
• treggings

 

Translations

leg covering

• Cheyenne: hohtoho
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 绑腿 (zh) (bǎngtuǐ), 打底裤 (dǎdǐkù)

• Esperanto: kruringo
• Finnish: pitkäthousut, leggingsit, pitkikset, trikoohousut (fi)
• French: molletière (fr) f
• German: Überhose
• Hungarian: cicanadrág, macskanadrág (hu), sztreccsnadrág
• Icelandic: legghlíf (is) f
• Malay: sarung betis
• Maori: pārengarenga, pāpari, rēkena
• Persian: زنگال (zangâl), لگن (fa) (legen)
• Polish: legginsy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: legging f
• Russian: ге́тра (ru) f (gétra), лоси́ны (ru) f pl (losíny), ле́ггинсы (ru) m pl (légginsy), ле́гинсы (ru) m pl (léginsy)
• Tagalog: polaynas
• Taos: cìatúną

tight-fitting stretch pants

• Dutch: legging m
• French: legging (fr) m
• German: Leggings, Leggins (de)
• Italian: leggings (it) m pl
• Japanese: レギンス (ja) (reginsu)
• Korean: 레깅스 (regingseu)
• Portuguese: legging f
• Russian: лоси́ны (ru) f pl (losíny)

Verb

legging

1. present participle and gerund of leg

Derived terms

• legging it
• bootlegging
• peg-legging

Further reading

• Leggings on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• eggling

Dutch

Etymology 1

From leggen +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɣɪŋ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: leg‧ging

Noun

legging f (plural leggingen, diminutive legginkje n)

1. (chiefly in compounds) act of placing

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English legging.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡɪŋ/, /ˈlɛɣɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: leg‧ging

Noun

legging m (plural leggings, diminutive legginkje n)

1. legging (leg covering)

Icelandic

Etymology

From leggja +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛcːiŋk/

Noun

legging f (genitive singular leggingar, nominative plural leggingar)

1. frill, ruffle (decorative strip of material)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From leggje +‎ -ing.

Noun

legging f (definite singular legginga, indefinite plural leggingar, definite plural leggingane)

1. laying
2. the act of going to bed one self or putting to bed someone else

References

• “legging” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Calça legging

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English legging.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.ɡĩ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.ɡĩ/ [ˈlɛ.ɣĩ]

Noun

legging f (plural leggings)

1. legging (a covering, usually of leather, worn from knee to ankle)
   • 2024, Beatriz Oliveira, Paixão e Segredos‎^[1], →ISBN:

     Ela estava com os cabelos presos em um rabo de cavalo, usava uma legging e uma blusa enorme, que chegava quase aos seus joelhos, e parecia cansada.

     She had her hair tied up in a ponytail, was wearing leggings and an oversized blouse that almost reached her knees, and she looked tired.

Further reading

• “legging”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “legging”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024