ankles

Meaning of ankles

plural noun
  1. the joint connecting the foot with the leg.
    Jennie fell downstairs, breaking her ankle
    an ankle injury
verb, 3rd person present
  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Old English ancleow, of Germanic origin; superseded in Middle English by forms from Old Norse; related to Dutch enkel and German Enkel, from an Indo-European root shared by angle1.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 ankles

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

an-kles

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • ankles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of ankles

Kensal

Words that rhyme with ankles

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