thigh
The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
Other meanings
That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.
A kind of
- limb
Kinds of thigh
- lap
Related words
- forethigh
- midthigh
- thighed
- thighless
- thighward
- smite hip and thigh
- thigh boot
- thigh gap
- thigh master
- thigh slapper
- thigh-slapping
- my thigh
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "þēoh".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “thigh” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.