Haunch

Definitions: Haunch

Haunch

Noun

1. The hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings.

2. The loin and leg of a quadruped.

Date "haunch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Haunch \Haunch\, noun. [French expression hanche, of German origin; compare to OD. hancke, hencke, and also Old High German. ancha; probably not akin to English ankle.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Laterality	Noun: laterality; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl, jole, wing; profile; temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip; beam.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Haunch

English words defined with "haunch": haunch bone, Haunches of an arch, Hip bone, Huckle ♦ innominate bone. (references)

Specialty definitions using "haunch": Aitch-bone. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Allrightniks Row: Haunch Paunch and Jowl: The Making of a Professional Jew (Masterworks of Modern Jewish Writing) (reference) Haunch, paunch and jowl (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Haunch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.15% of the time. "Haunch" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.15%	25	69,787
Lexical Verb (base form)	3.85%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	26	N/A

Expression using "haunch": haunch bone. Additional references.
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.

Language		Translations for "haunch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kofshë mishi, këmbë e pasme kafshe, këllk (hip, hipbone), ijë (flank, groin, hip, loins, side). (various references)

Arabic		‏فخذ الحيوان, ‏كفل عجز, ‏ورك (hip, rump), ‏ربع الحيوان. (various references)

Bulgarian		ханш (hip), бут (butt, buttock, ham, leg, quarter, rump, side), бедро (breech, ham, hip, huckle, thigh), полусвод. (various references)

Czech		kyèel (hip, hup), kýta (joint, leg, rump), bok (flank, hip, side). (various references)

Danish		stumptap, rammehjørne (knee), buevederlag, bjælkekonsol. (various references)

Dutch		portaalhoek (knee), onderste booghelft, aanzet van de boog. (various references)

Farsi		کفل (Backside, Breech, Buttock, Hip, Posterior, Rump, Seat, Slat), گوشت ران وگرده , گرده (Granule, Kidney, Loin), سرین (Rump, Seat). (various references)

Finnish		holvin kantaosa, holvin kanta (impost). (various references)

French		hanche, rein, quartier, flanc, cuissot, angle de portique. (various references)

German		hüfte (hip, ilium, pelvis). (various references)

Greek		ράχη (backboard, bank, bulk, edge, narrow face, peduncle, ridge, ridge of high pressure, saddle, spine, tergum, thickness, wedge), σκέλος τόξου, σκέλος (knee, leg, peduncle, spreader, spreading wire), γόφοσ (hip), γωνία (angle, coign, corner, edge, extrusion, facet, knee, nook, ridge, shed, tack, wedge), γλουτόσ (buttock, rump), ισχίο (hip, ischium), μήροσ (thigh), μασχάλη θόλου, ενίσχυση στη στήριξη δοκού ή τόξου, αντερίς. (various references)

Hebrew		ירך (femur, ham, hip, loin, thigh). (various references)

Hungarian		comb (ham, leg, thigh, tibia), hátsó rész (aft end, breech, hind quarters, pelvic limb, rear-end, rump), csípő (hip, iliac, nipping, tingling, tingly), ívváll. (various references)

Indonesian		paha (ham, thigh), daging pinggang (loin). (various references)

Italian		rene (kidney, loin, small), nodo del telaio (knee), fianco (belly, broadside, cheek, flank, hillside, hip, leg length, side, sidewall), coscia (crura, crus, ham, leg, thigh), anca (hip). (various references)

Manx		lheshey (coxal, femoral, of a hip), curp (aitch bone, bottom, bum, buttock, rump). (various references)

Norwegian		hofte (hip). (various references)

Pig Latin		aunchhay

Portuguese		rim (kidney, kidneys), restolho (aftermath, aftermath hay, eddish, halo, rowen, second-cut hay, stubble), quadril (hip, Huckleberry, loin), parte traseira de animal, coxa (leg, thigh), anca (hip, rump). (various references)

Romanian		pulpã (gammon, pulp), şold (hip, huckle, slope). (various references)

Russian		бедро (femur, ham, hip, hyp, thigh). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zadnji deo (backside), lučni krak, bedro (hip, tight). (various references)

Spanish		sobaco (armpit, oxter, underarm), seno (bay, belly, bosom, bosoms, breast, gulf, heart, sine, sinus, womb), riñones (reins), riñón (kidney), pierna (downstroke, drumstick, leg, lower leg, paw, shank, stem), pie (base, bottom, butt, catchword, f, floor, foot, footing, footwall, leg, paw, pes, plain foot, stalk, stem, tripod, unmounted foot), nudo del pórtico (knee), enjuta, embecadura, culata (bootleg, butt, grip, handle, head, rear, rump, socket, stock, yoke), anca (croup, ham, rump), albanega. (various references)

Swedish		länd (loin, lumbar), höft (hip, thigh). (various references)

Thai		สะโพก (buttock, hip). (various references)

Turkish		sağrı (rump), kalça (buttocks, hip, huckle, nates, thigh), but (buttock, croup, croupe, drumstick, gigot, hindquarter, huckle, leg, rump, thigh). (various references)

Ukranian		стегно (femur, ham, hip, huck, thigh). (various references)

Welsh		clun (brushwood, hip, leg, meadow, moor, thigh). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "haunch": haunched, haunches. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Haunch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hacucho, haun, Haunce, haunche, hench, hinch, Huanuco, saunch. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words ending with "aunch": Craunch. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-h-h-n-u"
	-1 letter: hunch, nucha.
	-2 letters: hunh.
	-3 letters: can, hah, huh, hun, nah.
	-4 letters: ah, an, ha, na, nu, uh, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-h-n-u"
	+2 letters: haunched, haunches, nuthatch.
	+3 letters: churchman, dachshund, hachuring, hunchback, unhatched.
	+4 letters: antichurch, autochthon, dachshunds, hunchbacks, nuthatches.
	+5 letters: autochthons, churchwoman, hunchbacked.
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