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thighed

thighed

1 8.9
Having thighs of a certain size or shape
  • adjective
: musloso
  • The athlete's strong, thighed legs helped her sprint faster than her competitors.
  • thick-thighed
  • big-thighed
  • thighed woman

Examples

  • The other girl is amazingly thin but thick-thighed; she is freckle-cheeked, and she wears glasses that cloud over.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • He's a sandy-haried, slender-thighed... long-legged, big beautiful young man... with excellent bone structure.

  • She charges the net, a pudgy, pink-thighed girl, small muscles taut.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The ball bangs on the side of Nonie's racquet, and Nonie's racquet comes down and strikes the wrist of the big-thighed girl at the net.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • He admired her thighed figure as she confidently walked across the room.

  • The thighed dancers moved gracefully, showcasing their powerful legs in the performance.

Surface Forms

thighed positive

Morphology

thighed = thigh (transparent) = thigh + ed

Regular adjectival/participial formation from the noun 'thigh' with '-ed', easily inferable by learners who know 'thigh'.

Etymology

Thighed comes from the simple body word thigh, which means 'the top part of the leg', plus the ending -ed, which here means 'having'. So thighed describes someone or something that has thighs of a certain kind, size, or appearance.