skank.
the lower part of an animal's forelimb or hindlimb, extending from the knee towards the foot; the shank
Meaning & usage
the lower part of an animal's forelimb or hindlimb, extending from the knee towards the foot; the shank
skanken på en hest
a cut of meat from the lower part of an animal's leg; a shank
a human leg
a stiff, frozen fish
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Norse skankr (“leg, shank”), from a Proto-Germanic ablauting noun represented by Proto-Germanic *skankô (“that which is bent; shank, thigh”), with related stem variants *skinkan- and *skunkan-. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp, hobble; to tilt, be askew”), probably through the semantic development “crooked, bent” → “leg, shank”. Related to skinke (“ham”), borrowed from a Middle Low German descendant of the related Proto-Germanic variant *skinkô (“thigh, shank”), and sjenkel (“lower leg; rider's leg”), borrowed from German Schenkel, a diminutive formation from the same Germanic word family. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk skank, Danish skank, Swedish skank and English shank.
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