legging

English

A woman wearing black leggings

Alternative forms

• leggin (dated)

Etymology

leg +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛɡ.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
• 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 (reginsu)
• Korean: 레깅스 (regingseu)
• 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)

Declension

declension of legging

f-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	legging	leggingin	leggingar	leggingarnar
accusative	leggingu	legginguna	leggingar	leggingarnar
dative	leggingu	leggingunni	leggingum	leggingunum
genitive	leggingar	leggingarinnar	legginga	legginganna

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.