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Definition: HUCKLE |
HUCKLENoun1. A bunch or part projecting like the hip. 2. The hip; the haunch. |
Etymology: Huckle \Huc"kle\, noun. [Perh. diminutive of Prov. English hucka hook, and so named from its round shape. See Hook.]. (references) |
Crosswords: HUCKLE |
| English words defined with "HUCKLE": Cockal ♦ Hip bone ♦ innominate bone ♦ Whirlbone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HUCKLE": Excommunication ♦ HUCKLE MY BUFF. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HUCKLE": Whirlbone. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "HUCKLE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (huckle), Swedish (kerchief). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXCOMMUNICATION, n. This "excommunication" is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard, And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal -- A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. Gat Huckle |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "HUCKLE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Huckle | Last name | 100 | 71,829 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "HUCKLE": Huckle bone. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "HUCKLE": Huckle-backed, huckle-bone, huckle-bones. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
berry finn huckle | 4 |
buck huckle | 4 |
berry huckle | 3 |
huckle | 3 |
berry fin huckle | 3 |
huckle cat | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HUCKLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مساوم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хълбок (flank, hip), задница (croup, fundament, posterior, rump), бедро (breech, ham, haunch, hip, thigh). (various references) | |
Czech | kyèelní kost (hipbone, huckle-bone). (various references) | |
French | huckle. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csípõcsont (aitch-bone, hip-bone, huckle-bone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ucklehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quadril (haunch, hip, loin), cadeiras. (various references) | |
Romanian | şold (haunch, hip, slope). (various references) | |
Russian | лодыжка (ancle, ankle, huckle-bone). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | piljak (huckle-bone, jack, jack-stone), kost kuka (huckle-bone), bedrenjača (hipbone, huckle-bone). (various references) | |
Spanish | cadera (hip, hunker). (various references) | |
Turkish | kalça (buttocks, haunch, hip, nates, thigh), but (buttock, croup, croupe, drumstick, gigot, haunch, hindquarter, leg, rump, thigh). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lưng gù (huckle-back, humpback, hunchback), lưng có bướu (huckle-back), gù lưng (crook-backed, huckle-backed), có bướu ở lưng (huckle-backed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HUCKLE": huckleberries, huckleberry, huckles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HUCKLE": chuckle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HUCKLE": chuckled, chucklehead, chuckleheaded, chuckleheads, chuckler, chucklers, chuckles, chucklesome. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HUCKLE" (pronounced hu"kul) |
| 4 | -u" k u l | buckle, chuckle, suckle, knuckle, muckle, ruckle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, jackal, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, sociological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-k-l-u" | |
-2 letters: clue, cuke, heck, huck, hulk, lech, leku, luce, luck. | |
-3 letters: cel, cue, ecu, elk, hue, kue, lek, leu, uke. | |
-4 letters: eh, el, he, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-k-l-u" | |
+1 letter: chuckle, huckles. | |
+2 letters: cheekful, chuckled, chuckler, chuckles, shelduck, suchlike. | |
+3 letters: cheekfuls, chuckhole, chucklers, shelducks, unshackle. | |
+4 letters: backhauled, blockhouse, cherublike, chuckholes, unshackled, unshackles. | |
+5 letters: blockhouses, chucklehead, chucklesome, honeysuckle, huckleberry, knucklehead, shuttlecock, swashbuckle, uncheckable, unchildlike, unshockable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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