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huckle

/ˈhʌkəl/

huckle noun: the hip, the haunch.

Noun

huckle (plural huckles)

  1. (obsolete) The hip, the haunch.
    • […] which approves a quick gathering up of his legs withoute pain, his huckle bones round and hidden, […]1676, A Way to Get Wealth, Book I, page 5
    • At what time Don Quixote, who had very much bruis'd his Huckle-bone, with a Hipshot grace approaching the Lady fell upon his Knees […]1687, The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha and His Trusty Squire (translated by JP), Book II, page 433
  2. A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
  3. (Geordie, derogatory) A homosexual man.
    • When moving into our present dwelling some 6 months ago..the puchase^([sic]) of a new bed was of primary importance.The puchase^([sic]) was completed by a right huckle who didn`t realise the importance of the "squeek"^([sic]) factor in the purchase of such an item.2001 March 29, denislindridge [username], “Promotion”, in uk.sport.horseracing (Usenet)
    • He’s not! He can’t be! There's never been a huckle in the Osbourne family, and we can trace our lineage all the way back to the Second World War.2002, “Bridge Over Troubled Waters”, in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Verb

huckle (third-person singular simple present huckles, present participle huckling, simple past and past participle huckled)

  1. (Scotland) To apprehend or arrest.
    • He was awakened by a couple of burly police officers and huckled out to a waiting van.2013, Michael Munro, The Crack: The Best of Glasgow Humour
    • Then one day when I was at school, police with motorbike helmets came to the door with a big red battering ram and dragged Dad out of his bed while he was sleeping off a massive booze binge and huckled him downtown to read him his rights, throw the damn book at him and charge him for 'aggravated...2014, Brian Conaghan, When Mr Dog Bites

huckle meaning in Tamil and Kannada

huckle in Tamil

இடுப்புப் பகுதி

huckle in Kannada

ಸೊಂಟ, ರೊಂಡಿ, ನಡು, ಕಟಿ, ಪಿರ್ರೆ, ಅಂಡು

Forms of huckle

Noun
pluralhuckles
Verb
third-person singular presenthuckles
present participlehuckling
past participlehuckled
pasthuckled

Origin of huckle

From huck (from Middle English hoke (“hook”), hokebone, probably so called because of its round shape) + -le. See also hook.

Words formed from huckle

Phrases with huckle

Words that rhyme with huckle

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Questions about huckle

What does huckle mean?
Huckle means the hip, the haunch.
What is huckle in Tamil?
Huckle in Tamil is இடுப்புப் பகுதி. See Huckle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is huckle?
Huckle can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce huckle?
Huckle is pronounced /ˈhʌkəl/.
What is the plural of huckle?
The plural of huckle is huckles.

Words near huckle in the dictionary

  1. hucker
  2. huckers
  3. Huckes
  4. Huckin
  5. hucking
  6. huckle
  7. huckle bone
  8. huckle bones
  9. huckleback
  10. hucklebacks
  11. huckleberried

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: huckle (page history and authors); huckle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); huckle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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