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cankle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈkæŋkəl/

Etymology

Blend of calf + ankle.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, usually) An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation.
   • The “cankle” (or the appearance of not having an ankle, but the calf of the leg just connecting to the foot) is a look that many women have and most could live without. 2004, Jeff Smith, Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide:
   • Laserassisted lipolysis for cankle remodelling: A prospective study in 30 patients. Lasers Med Sci 2014; 29:131–136. Leclère FM, Trelles M, MorenoMoraga J, Servell P, Unglaub F, Mordon SR. 980nm laser lipolysis (LAL): About 674[…] 2017 January 27, Pierre Andre, Eckart Haneke, Leonardo Marini, Christopher Rowland Payne, Cosmetic Medicine and Surgery, CRC Press, →ISBN:
   • Stop saying I have cankles! 2008 September 13, Saturday Night Live, spoken by Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler):
   • Hey, all l’m saying is she’s got cankles, for God’s sake. What? Cankles! She’s got no ankles. It’s like the calf merged with the foot, cut out the middleman. 2001, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Shallow Hal:
   • Now that's a cankle! Where does the calf fat end and the ankle fat begin? Who knows, that's the fun! 2007, “Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey”, in Family Guy, season 5, episode 13:
   • They’d pass me magazines and ask how my cankle recovery was progressing. They’re ankles, not cankles. I don’t have cankles! 2005, Franz Wisner, Honeymoon with my Brother:

Forms

Translations (13)

es tobillo hinchado (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · de Stamper (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · cmn 胖腳踝 /胖脚踝 (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · fr cheville enflée (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · nl kenkel (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · ru распу́хшая щи́колотка (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · de Stamperl (Austro-Bavarian) (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · cmn 腳踝贅肉 /脚踝赘肉 (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · de Wurstknöchel (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · de Krautstampfer (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · pt tornozelo inchado (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · fi paksu nilkka (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle) · hu bokaödéma (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)