different between cantle vs cankle

English

Etymology

From Middle English cantle, cantel, from Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau, Bourguignon chainteâ), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kant?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kænt?l/

Noun

cantle (plural cantles)

1. (obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
   • , Act III, Scene i:

     See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax (tr.), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VI, xlviii:

     Their armors forged were of metal frail; / On every side thereof huge cantles flies; / The land was strewed all with plate and mail, / That on the earth, on that their warm blood lies.
2. The raised back of a saddle.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p.93:

     He recognised a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle.
3. (Scotland) The top of the head.
4. (Scotland) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.

Translations

Verb

cantle (third-person singular simple present cantles, present participle cantling, simple past and past participle cantled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut into pieces.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To cut out from.

Anagrams

• Lancet, cantel, cental, lancet

English

Alternative forms

• kankle

Etymology

Blend of calf +? ankle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ?k?l/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?l

Noun

cankle (plural cankles)

1. (slang, derogatory) An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation.
   • 2001, Shallow Hal:

     Hey, all l’m saying is she’s got cankles, for God’s sake. What? Cankles! She’s got no ankles. It’s like the calf merged with the foot, cut out the middleman.

   • 2007, Family Guy, season 5, "Bill And Peter's Bogus Journey":

     Now that's a cankle! Where does the calf fat end and the ankle fat begin? Who knows, that's the fun!

Translations

Anagrams

• Klance