Cankle

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English

Etymology

Blend of calf and ankle

Noun

cankle (plural cankles)

1. An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation.

   2004 — The “cankle” (or the appearance of not having an ankle, but the calf of the leg just connecting to the foot) is a look that many women have and most could live without. — w:Jeff Smith, Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide

   2004 — Her thighs were flabby, varicose veins sprayed down the back of her knees, and she had cankles. Her hair looked like it was cut by a blender. - w:Stephanie Lehmann, The Art of Undressing

   2005 — They’d pass me magazines and ask how my cankle recovery was progressing. They’re ankles, not cankles. I don’t have cankles! — w:Franz Wisner, Honeymoon with my Brother

2. (meaning unclear):

   1939 — Famosel Sure there’s nobody else in touch anysides to hold a chef’s cankle to the darling at all for sheer dare with that prisonpotstill of spanish breans on him like the knave of trifles I A jolly- tan fine demented brick and the prince of goodfilips! — w:James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

   1939 — ... , and, galorybit of the sanes in hevel, there was a crick up the stirkiss and when she ruz the cankle to see, galohery, downand she went on her knees to blessersef that were knogging together like milk- juggles as if it was the wrake of the hapspurus or old Kong Gander O’Toole of the Mountains or his googoo goosth she seein, ..." — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake