"hind leg" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /haɪnd.lɛɡ/ [UK, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-hind leg.wav Forms: hind legs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hind leg (plural hind legs)
  1. Either of the two legs towards the rear of a four-legged animal. Categories (lifeform): Animal body parts Synonyms: hind limb, hindleg Derived forms: crooked as a dog's hind leg, stand up on one's hind legs, talk the hind leg off a donkey, talk the hind legs off a donkey Translations (either of two legs towards the rear): 後肢 (Chinese Mandarin), 后肢 (hòuzhī) (Chinese Mandarin), takajalka (Finnish), ყალყი (q̇alq̇i) (Georgian), Hinterlauf [masculine] (German), Hinterbein [neuter] (German), afturfótur [masculine] (Icelandic), takajalka (Ingrian), takujalka (Ingrian), cos deiridh [feminine] (Irish), zampa posteriore [feminine] (Italian), 後肢 (kōshi) (alt: こうし) (Japanese), 後足 (alt: あとあし, atoashi, こうきゃく, kōkyaku) (Japanese), 後ろ足 (ushiroashi) (alt: うしろあし) (Japanese), 뒷다리 (dwitdari) (Korean), Achterbeen [German-Low-German, neuter] (Low German), Achterbein [German-Low-German, neuter] (Low German), bakbein [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), bakben [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), bakbein [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), perna traseira [feminine] (Portuguese), за́дняя нога́ (zádnjaja nogá) [feminine] (Russian), за́дняя ла́па (zádnjaja lápa) (english: hind paw) [feminine] (Russian), lurgann (english: horse's) [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), bakben [neuter] (Swedish), lek (Tok Pisin), coes ôl [feminine] (Welsh)

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          "word": "crooked as a dog's hind leg"
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          "word": "talk the hind leg off a donkey"
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          "sense": "either of two legs towards the rear",
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          "sense": "either of two legs towards the rear",
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          "sense": "either of two legs towards the rear",
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      "roman": "zádnjaja nogá",
      "sense": "either of two legs towards the rear",
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      "roman": "zádnjaja lápa",
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      "sense": "either of two legs towards the rear",
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      "sense": "either of two legs towards the rear",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.