ankle

Meaning of ankle

noun
  1. the joint connecting the foot with the leg.
    Jennie fell downstairs, breaking her ankle
    an ankle injury
verb
  1. walk.
    we can ankle off to a new locale
  2. flex the ankles while cycling in order to increase pedalling efficiency.
    at higher cadences, the feet tend to flap when you are attempting to ankle

Old English ancleow, of Germanic origin; superseded in Middle English by forms from Old Norse; related to Dutch enkel and German Enkel, from an Indo-European root shared by angle1.

Information about ankle

  • The plural form of ankle is: ankles.
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Hyphenation of ankle

an-kle

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
  • ankle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of ankle

Anagrams of ankle

Lenka

Words that rhyme with ankle

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