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Bollen.

upper leg, thigh (including the buttock), especially when sturdy or fleshy, now most often said of slaughtered poultry

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbɔlən/
  1. upper leg, thigh (including the buttock), especially when sturdy or fleshy, now most often said of slaughtered poultry

    Northern · Rhineland · Westphalia · masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

Of dialectal origin, from Middle Low German bolle m or f, which is the same word as Bolle f (“roundish object”, etymology 2). The sense “thigh” probably developed under influence of (remotely related) Middle Low German bille, for which see Dutch bil (“buttock”).

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