different between crankle vs cankle

English

Etymology

crank +? -le.Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."

Pronunciation

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

Noun

crankle (plural crankles)

1. A bend, twist or crinkle.

Derived terms

• crinkle-crankle

Verb

crankle (third-person singular simple present crankles, present participle crankling, simple past and past participle crankled)

1. To bend, turn, or wind.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 7 p. 105[1]:

     Meander, who is said so intricate to bee,

     Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.

   • 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons' Wars

     Along the crankling path.

2. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
   • 1708, John Philips, Cyder

     Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.

Anagrams

• Lackner, clanker

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