ankle
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- ancle (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
Old English ancle, anclow, ancleow; akin to Icelandic ökkla, ökli, Danish and Swedish ankel, Dutch enklaauw, enkel, German enkel, Old Norse akka, Old Frisian anckel, and perhaps Old High German encha, ancha (“thigh, shin”), from the Proto-Germanic *ankijōn (“ankle or hip”).
Compare with Sanskrit anga (“limb”), anguri finger. Compare with haunch.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
ankle (plural ankles)
- The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
joint between foot and leg
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[edit] Verb
ankle (third-person singular simple present ankles, present participle ankling, simple past and past participle ankled)
- (US, slang) To walk.
- 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 275:
- After a while he got up and ankled his way down the corridor and met Penny coming out of the toilet.
- 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 275:
- (cycling) To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.