单词 | huckle |
释义 | hucklen. 1. The hip or haunch. (See also quot. 1855.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > side > [noun] > hip hipOE haunch?c1225 sciaa1400 quarterc1425 hucklea1529 hetchill1601 huck1788 a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 45 The bones of her huckles, Like as they were with buckels Togyther made fast. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Iiijv How many bones ar in ye huckles? Answere. After the veryte there is but one, howbeit after dyuers partyes of it there are thre. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 7 If the disease were in ether of the houkels or shoulders. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 142 Getting up on stump and huckle, He with the foe began to buckle. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4402/4 A black Mare..branded TM. below the Huckle on the near Side. 1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote iv. xvi. 295 Tho' he hurt his Haunch And Huckle. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Huckles, the hips. 1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 10 The Coccyx is called vernacularly the huckle or knuckle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > limb > fore limb or leg > hock houghc1400 hock1540 huckle1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 592 In the middle of the hornes there is a little branch standeth out like a knobbe, or as a huckle in the hinder part of a beasts legge. Compounds huckle-back n. a humpback. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back crooked-rig1382 crouchbackc1491 crook-back?1507 bunch-back1618 crump-backa1661 humpback1697 hunchback1718 huckle-back1762 cyphosis1847 bowbackedness1864 kyphosis- 1762 T. Bridges Homer Travestie I. ii. 131 His sceptre, with a thwack, He drove against his huckle back. huckle-backed adj. humpbacked. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back hoveredc897 embossedc1430 bow-backed1470 crook-backed1477 courbe-backed1480 bunch-backed1519 hunchbacked1598 buncht-back1603 crouch-backed1606 hulch1611 hulch-backed1611 hulched1611 crouchback1627 camel-backed1631 huck-backed1631 hulchy1632 boss-backed1640 gibbous1646 huckle-backeda1652 hulck-backed1656 hunched1656 crump-backeda1661 humpbacked1681 humped1713 humpback1726 humptya1825 hunchy1841 bible-backed1857 crooked-backed1866 cyphotic1889 a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor iii. iii. 48 in Five New Playes (1659) Of all Features and shapes, from the huckle-back'd Bum-creeper To the streight spiny Shop-maid in St. Martins. 1851 S. Judd Margaret (1871) xvii. 147 Diversities..that gave a wavy huckle-backed character to the entire field. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † hucklev.1 Obsolete. intransitive. To haggle in bargaining. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain [verb (intransitive)] bargain1525 hucka1529 hucker1548 dodge1568 blockc1570 pelt1579 hack1587 haggle1589 to beat the bargain1591 to beat the market1591 huckster1593 niffera1598 badger1600 scotch1601 palter1611 cheapen1620 higgle1633 tig-tag1643 huckle1644 chaffer1693 chaffer1725 dicker1797 niffer1815 Jew1825 hacker1833 banter1835 higgle-haggle1841 hondle1921 wheel and deal1961 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 161 After much base huckling, and rising by little and little. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 53 They will him sell, and I'le not huckling stand. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 225 Wilt thou stand..[and] huckle with him for a penny? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). hucklev.2 dialect. To bend the body, to stoop: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > bend down stoopc893 bowOE aloutOE fold13.. bendc1374 courbe1377 curb1377 inclinec1390 declinea1400 nuzzlec1450 buckle1600 doup1694 huckle1854 overbend1856 the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of bending > bend [verb (intransitive)] > stoop stoopc893 lenchc1325 bow1842 huckle1854 1854 W. Gaskell Lect. Lancs. Dial. 13 In Lancashire, a person who stoops is said to ‘huckle’. a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 24 Huckle, to bend down with pain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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