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skank.

a leg (human or animal)

5 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. a leg (human or animal)

    common-gender
    rör på skankarna!
Where this word comes from

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skankô, whence English shank and Norwegian Nynorsk skank. First attested in 1635. The noun is based on an older adjective (now obsolete) skank, skink (limping, lame on one leg).

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