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Leg vs Manscape - What's the difference?

leg | manscape |

As nouns the difference between leg and manscape

is that leg is lake while manscape is a view of a group of people.

As a verb manscape is

(rare) to impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.

leg

English

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Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.
    • Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.
  • (anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
  • A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
    • The left leg of these jeans has a tear.
  • A stage of a journey, race etc.
    • After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.
  • (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
  • (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
  • (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 11 , author=Rory Houston , title=Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland , work=RTE Sport citation , page= , passage=A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.}}
  • One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
  • (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
  • A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
    • the legs of a chair or table
  • (usually used in plural) evidence, the ability of a thing or idea to stick around or persist
  • (UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
  • An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
  • In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
  • (cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

    • Derived terms

    * a leg to stand on * foreleg * get one's leg over * hind leg * leg break * leg-breaker * leggy * leg it * legroom * legs eleven * legwork * make a leg * pull someone's leg * shake a leg * show a bit of leg * show a leg * stretch one's legs

    See also

    * ankle * arm * buttocks * calf * crus * elbow * foot * hip * joint * knee * lap * limb * shank * shin * thick * thigh * vertebra

    Verb

    (legg)
  • To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
  • To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
  • To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.

    • Derived terms

    * leg it

    Anagrams

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    References

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    manscape

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A view of a group of people.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1859, title=A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853, author=Bayard Taylor
    • , passage=I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manspace at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda.}}
  • A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2001, title=Earth Revealing--earth Healing, author=Denis Edwards
    • , passage=For example, he compares the monumental conquest of Mount Rushmore by Europeans, in which landscape became manscape . w'ith the indigenous Lakota people's desire to honor the Great Spirit, Wakonda
  • An image, normally artistic, of the male form.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Best Gay Erotica 2002, author=Richard Labonte
    • , passage=no contemplative staring at the marble-statue manscape I'd downloaded from one of the porno websites I'd found.}}

    Verb

    (manscap)
  • (rare) To impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1958, title=The New Zealand Railway Observer, author=New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society
    • , passage=On the valley floor, wide enough to admit the more pleasing features of manscaping , the Little River meanders}}
  • (neologism) To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2009 , date=October 6 , author=Molly Kissler , title=How To: Manscape , work=State Press Magazine citation , passage="Manscaping, otherwise known as the art of shaving, waxing and cleaning up the superfluous fur on a man..., is a must in this day and age"}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2009 , date=September 30 , author=Sara DiRienzo , title=The Art of Manscaping , work=College News citation , passage=College News'' presents a working guide of the dos and don’ts of manscaping''', taken from suggestions of college students themselves: Dos: ...Facial shaving/beard trimming, ...Controlling pubic hair, ...Embrace leg hair; Donts: Excessive chest hair, Long nose hairs, Ear hair, Adventurous shoulder and back hair, Unibrows, Wild beards... Follow these directions, and you’ll be making sure that the man in your life is properly ' manscaped . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Jen Lancaster, title=Bright Lights, Big Ass
    • , passage=Is it that hard to manscape ? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?}}

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