different between huckle vs thigh

English

Etymology

From huck (from Middle English hoke (“hook”), hokebone, probably so called because of its round shape) + -le. See also hook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

huckle (plural huckles)

1. (obsolete) The hip, the haunch.
   • 1676, A Way to Get Wealth, Book I, page 5

     […] which approves a quick gathering up of his legs withoute pain, his huckle bones round and hidden, […]

   • 1687, The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha and His Trusty Squire (translated by JP), Book II, page 433:

     At what time Don Quixote, who had very much bruis'd his Huckle-bone, with a Hipshot grace approaching the Lady fell upon his Knees […]
2. A bunch or part projecting like the hip.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nicholas Udall to this entry?)

3. (Tyneside, derogatory) A homosexual man.
   • 2002, "Bridge Over Troubled Waters", Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

     He’s not! He can’t be! There's never been a huckle in the Osbourne family, and we can trace our lineage all the way back to the Second World War.

English

Etymology

From Middle English thigh, thegh, thi?, the?he, þigh, þy?h, from Old English þ?oh, þ?oh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuh? (compare West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó), from Proto-Indo-European *tewk- (compare Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian ??? (tuk, “animal fat”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

thigh (plural thighs)

1. The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. [from 8th c.]
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:

     I coniure thee by Rosalines bright eyes, By her High forehead, and her Scarlet lip, By her Fine foote, Straight leg, and Quiuering thigh, And the Demeanes, that there Adiacent lie, That in thy likenesse thou appeare to vs.

   • 1800, Jane Austen, letter, 8 Nov 1800:

     About ten days ago, in cocking a pistol in the guard-room at Marcau, he accidentally shot himself through the Thigh.

   • 1991, Kathy Lette, The Llama Parlour:

     ‘Why not pay up now, kiddo?’ he suggested magnanimously, patting me on the thigh.

   • 2011, The Guardian, 31 Mar 2011:

     The 23-year-old was substituted in the 75th minute of France's goalless friendly draw with Croatia on Tuesday after suffering an injury to his thigh.

2. That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect. [from 14th c.]
   • 2009, Fred Thompson, Grillin' with Gas:

     Add the chicken thighs, close the bag, and squish the marinade to coat the chicken.

   • 2011, Ian Sample, The Guardian, 23 Feb 2011:

     The newly discovered dinosaur Brontomerus mcintoshi may have used its huge muscular thighs to kick predators and rivals.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Hight, hight

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /h??/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /hi?/

Noun

thigh

1. Lenited form of tigh.

Middle English

Noun

thigh (plural thighes)

1. Alternative spelling of þigh (“thigh”)