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Definition of knuckle in English: knucklenoun ˈnʌk(ə)lˈnək(ə)l 1A part of a finger at a joint where the bone is near the surface, especially where the finger joins the hand. Example sentencesExamples - Joe screamed out his frustration and hit the pillar profusely with his knuckles until traces of blood appeared on the surface of his knuckles.
- He held my hands tightly, digging his fingers into my knuckles.
- The knuckle of his middle finger on his right hand was larger than the one on his left.
- He cracked his knuckles and his fingers became blurs over the keyboard.
- It ended near her knuckles, where the snake's head was.
- I smiled at him sweetly, rubbing my fingers over his knuckles.
- Today there's only a miniscule red patch next to the knuckle of my ring finger which isn't even sore.
- She stretched out her left hand and bent the fingers at the second knuckle.
- Her hand was soft and I ran my finger along her pale knuckles.
- Warmth spread over his fingers while his knuckles throbbed.
- If you had a sore on a joint or a knuckle, you would know that constant bending would break the sore open and prevent its healing quickly.
- The first two knuckles of the middle finger bend and straighten.
- The wood splintered against his knuckles as his fingers crushed through the door, his fury and anger taking hold of him.
- It may appear any place on your body, but it is most common on the face, eyelids, neck, chest, knuckles, knees and elbows.
- Pinch the webbing between your thumb and index finger and push toward the bottom knuckle of your index finger.
- These darkening and tiny bumps are also seen on the knuckles of the fingers.
- Raising his right hand, he laid the knuckle of his index finger against his chin.
- The knuckle of his index finger poked my bare hip, which I hadn't realized was bare until that point.
- The captain nodded, rubbing the knuckle of his index finger over his lower lip in a thoughtful manner.
- Brian rubbed his thumb back and forth over my index finger knuckle, tickling me a little bit.
- 1.1 A projection of the carpal or tarsal joint of a quadruped.
- 1.2 A joint of meat consisting of the knuckle of an animal together with the adjoining parts.
Example sentencesExamples - Dishes such as the pork knuckle and pumpkin rice are only prepared in limited quantities each day and are best preordered.
- There are also culinary records indicating its use for pickled pigs feet, breaded veal knuckles, and sweet breads.
- Her recipe for an olio required ‘a fowl, a couple of partridges, a piece of a leg of mutton, a knuckle of veal, and a few rump steaks; also a piece of good streaked bacon or ham’.
- Clams, mussels, and lobster knuckles arrived in a purée of cauliflower with drops of beet and parsley juice and light curry.
- I'm still not sure what ‘capilutes of lamb’ are, but can vouch for the pork knuckle which one of my companions ordered.
verb ˈnʌk(ə)lˈnək(ə)l with object Rub or press (something, especially the eyes) with the knuckles. Example sentencesExamples - Cora followed suit, knuckling the small of her back and grateful to be off her feet.
- I knuckle my eyes and peer at Christian from behind my fingers.
- ‘Aye, aye, sir,’ they said knuckling their foreheads.
- A small boy laughed at me on the street and shouted something about girls and tongues so I pinned him down and knuckled his head.
- She rose from the chair, knuckling her lower back, and that activity segued into a long stretch-and-yawn.
Phrases informal Verging on the indecent or offensive. Example sentencesExamples - When I watched it on TV, I sweated all the way through it because it was so near the knuckle.
- Although its gross, flatulent Scotsman was pretty near the knuckle, most of us forgave Mike Myers that particular piece of stereotyping and laughed anyway.
- It's the sort of humour where you know you shouldn't really be laughing as the characters are very near the knuckle.
- Life Stinks, a 1991 departure from parody about a tycoon living in the gutter, was too near the knuckle for many American audiences whereas Dracula: Dead and Loving It was just another retread.
- Grease Monkeys is no-holds-barred tv, a bit surreal and often near the knuckle.
- Comedian John McBlain is convinced he will never get a mainstream television show because his mimicry of the province's politicians is too near the knuckle.
- Like Faber, Sugar is writing a novel about her life and career but the excerpts are surely too near the knuckle to make it publishable.
- We knew the movements were quite near the knuckle.
Synonyms risqué, racy, sexy, naughty, spicy, juicy, suggestive, ribald, indelicate, indecorous, indecent, immodest, off colour, dirty, rude, smutty, crude, bawdy, vulgar, salacious, coarse North American gamy informal raunchy, blue, close to the bone, near the bone British informal fruity, saucy euphemistic adult
Phrasal Verbs Apply oneself seriously to a task. Example sentencesExamples - However, when there is work to be done he insists that you knuckle down and we know the time to be serious.
- Dundee were threatening to score in the second half but we knuckled down and scrambled well in defence.
- It was a bit of relaxation for the players and a rare chance to let off some steam and freshen up before knuckling down and preparing for Saturday.
- Everyone knuckled down and we got the two points we needed.
- Concluding he said that he was now looking forward ‘to knuckling down again in November’.
- With legalities out of the way, the EU is knuckling down to the serious process of its fifth enlargement, bringing the Union to a total of 25 countries.
- I at least had the satisfaction of startling the idiot out of his numb trance before I knuckled down to the task at hand.
- More than 20 unpaid workers have been knuckling down to pave the way for another stretch of Route 45, the national cycle network.
- I have to give him credit for really knuckling down to his training and he cannot wait to get back into the ring.
- Universities are now insisting - on behalf of the culture - that the writer knuckle down to the task Poe outlined.
Synonyms be diligent, be industrious, be assiduous, show commitment, show dedication
Submit to someone else's authority. Example sentencesExamples - If she doesn't knuckle under soon, she's going to fail her exams.
- If California does not knuckle under, the US Treasury may have to fork out $976 million in compensation to the Canadians.
- Their alternatives were to knuckle under or die.
- Hardly surprisingly, Frederick knuckled under to his father's wishes, meanwhile biding his time and devoutly wishing for the old man's death.
- Will I knuckle under and write nothing about the Treasurer that isn't positive, or will a threatening call to my boss's boss be needed to bring me to heel?
- In agreeing to the truce, union leaders knuckled under to company threats to close its operations.
- But his minister was adamant and rather than knuckle under, Spinetta quit.
- He is reform-minded, and believes that what is best for his people is not knuckling under to the United States.
- Every state in Europe with commercial interests in the Mediterranean had knuckled under to the extortion.
- If the Administration knuckles under now, its support will bleed away.
- In the one she will renounce it, in the other she will knuckle under to it.
- Eventually, the House Republican Caucus had to knuckle under on the DeLay Rule because of all the constituent outrage.
- He laughed when I told him about Pavlov's later turn and about the accusation that he had knuckled under to the nomenklatura.
- The movie was a nasty, dark piece of work about needy characters knuckling under to their worst impulses.
- Yet you've also seen some evidence of politicians knuckling under to the will of illegal alien advocacy groups.
- Will Senate Democrats knuckle under or fight for minimal principles?
- With my final unemployment check looming, I finally knuckled under, swallowed my pride, and rejoined the TrustiTemps agency.
- I thank them for their courage to stand up to what must be tremendous pressure to knuckle under.
- We might use the churches which did not knuckle under to Hitler, although it is questionable in the minds of some people whether churches should get into politics.
- I am sorry to say that our employer knuckled under, and so did we, and we replaced that version of the paper with another, without the offending citation.
Synonyms surrender, submit, capitulate, give in, give up, yield, give way, succumb, climb down, back down, quit, admit defeat, lay down one's arms, be defeated, be overcome, acquiesce, accede, accept, defer
Derivatives adjective There are magazines in the man's knuckly hands. Example sentencesExamples - I watch Miss Match's knuckly fingers work the balance toward the upper end of the scale in five-pound increments.
- Hit the edge of the drum with the knuckly part of your palm and let your fingers bounce off the head.
- Can you imagine the knuckly bits this poor, unwitting woman in San Jose endured as she sat down to dinner Tuesday evening?
- While Ada sliced chicken, Wakefield focused binoculars on her knuckly hands.
Origin Middle English knokel (originally denoting the rounded shape when a joint such as the elbow or knee is bent), from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch knökel, diminutive of knoke 'bone'. In the mid 18th century the verb knuckle (down) expressed setting the knuckles down to shoot the taw in a game of marbles, hence the notion of applying oneself with concentration. In medieval times a knuckle was the rounded shape made by a joint like the elbow or knee when bent, but over the years it became limited to the joints of the fingers. The word may ultimately be related to knee (Old English). Someone prepared to knuckle down to something is ready to concentrate on a task, but the phrase originally comes from a game. People playing marbles in the 18th century set their knuckles down on the ground before shooting or casting the ‘taw’, a large marble. Something which threatens to go beyond the limits of decency can be described as being near the knuckle. This was originally used more generally to mean ‘close to the permitted limits of behaviour’.
Rhymes buckle, chuckle, muckle, ruckle, suckle, truckle Definition of knuckle in US English: knucklenounˈnək(ə)lˈnək(ə)l 1A part of a finger at a joint where the bone is near the surface, especially where the finger joins the hand. Charlotte rapped on the window with her knuckles Example sentencesExamples - I smiled at him sweetly, rubbing my fingers over his knuckles.
- Raising his right hand, he laid the knuckle of his index finger against his chin.
- The wood splintered against his knuckles as his fingers crushed through the door, his fury and anger taking hold of him.
- The knuckle of his middle finger on his right hand was larger than the one on his left.
- She stretched out her left hand and bent the fingers at the second knuckle.
- It ended near her knuckles, where the snake's head was.
- He held my hands tightly, digging his fingers into my knuckles.
- Today there's only a miniscule red patch next to the knuckle of my ring finger which isn't even sore.
- If you had a sore on a joint or a knuckle, you would know that constant bending would break the sore open and prevent its healing quickly.
- Her hand was soft and I ran my finger along her pale knuckles.
- It may appear any place on your body, but it is most common on the face, eyelids, neck, chest, knuckles, knees and elbows.
- The knuckle of his index finger poked my bare hip, which I hadn't realized was bare until that point.
- Joe screamed out his frustration and hit the pillar profusely with his knuckles until traces of blood appeared on the surface of his knuckles.
- He cracked his knuckles and his fingers became blurs over the keyboard.
- The captain nodded, rubbing the knuckle of his index finger over his lower lip in a thoughtful manner.
- These darkening and tiny bumps are also seen on the knuckles of the fingers.
- Pinch the webbing between your thumb and index finger and push toward the bottom knuckle of your index finger.
- Warmth spread over his fingers while his knuckles throbbed.
- The first two knuckles of the middle finger bend and straighten.
- Brian rubbed his thumb back and forth over my index finger knuckle, tickling me a little bit.
- 1.1 A projection of the carpal or tarsal joint of a quadruped.
- 1.2 A cut of meat consisting of an animal's knuckle together with the adjoining parts.
Example sentencesExamples - I'm still not sure what ‘capilutes of lamb’ are, but can vouch for the pork knuckle which one of my companions ordered.
- Dishes such as the pork knuckle and pumpkin rice are only prepared in limited quantities each day and are best preordered.
- Clams, mussels, and lobster knuckles arrived in a purée of cauliflower with drops of beet and parsley juice and light curry.
- There are also culinary records indicating its use for pickled pigs feet, breaded veal knuckles, and sweet breads.
- Her recipe for an olio required ‘a fowl, a couple of partridges, a piece of a leg of mutton, a knuckle of veal, and a few rump steaks; also a piece of good streaked bacon or ham’.
verbˈnək(ə)lˈnək(ə)l [with object]Rub or press (something, especially the eyes) with the knuckles. Example sentencesExamples - She rose from the chair, knuckling her lower back, and that activity segued into a long stretch-and-yawn.
- I knuckle my eyes and peer at Christian from behind my fingers.
- Cora followed suit, knuckling the small of her back and grateful to be off her feet.
- ‘Aye, aye, sir,’ they said knuckling their foreheads.
- A small boy laughed at me on the street and shouted something about girls and tongues so I pinned him down and knuckled his head.
Phrasal Verbs 1Apply oneself seriously to a task. Example sentencesExamples - I have to give him credit for really knuckling down to his training and he cannot wait to get back into the ring.
- Concluding he said that he was now looking forward ‘to knuckling down again in November’.
- Dundee were threatening to score in the second half but we knuckled down and scrambled well in defence.
- I at least had the satisfaction of startling the idiot out of his numb trance before I knuckled down to the task at hand.
- However, when there is work to be done he insists that you knuckle down and we know the time to be serious.
- More than 20 unpaid workers have been knuckling down to pave the way for another stretch of Route 45, the national cycle network.
- With legalities out of the way, the EU is knuckling down to the serious process of its fifth enlargement, bringing the Union to a total of 25 countries.
- Universities are now insisting - on behalf of the culture - that the writer knuckle down to the task Poe outlined.
- Everyone knuckled down and we got the two points we needed.
- It was a bit of relaxation for the players and a rare chance to let off some steam and freshen up before knuckling down and preparing for Saturday.
Synonyms be diligent, be industrious, be assiduous, show commitment, show dedication Synonyms surrender, submit, capitulate, give in, give up, yield, give way, succumb, climb down, back down, quit, admit defeat, lay down one's arms, be defeated, be overcome, acquiesce, accede, accept, defer
Origin Middle English knokel (originally denoting the rounded shape when a joint such as the elbow or knee is bent), from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch knökel, diminutive of knoke ‘bone’. In the mid 18th century the verb knuckle (down) expressed setting the knuckles down to shoot the taw in a game of marbles, hence the notion of applying oneself with concentration. |