Ankle vs Anile - What's the difference?
ankle | anile |
The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.
(US, slang) To walk.
* 2009 , Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, p. 275:
(cycling) To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.
Characteristic of a crone or a feeble old woman.
* 1844 , Sydney Smith, The Works of Sydney Smith , “Wittman’s Travels” (Edinburgh Review, 1803),
* 1880 , Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the mystics?:?a contribution to the history of religious opinion ,
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As a noun ankle
is the skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.As a verb ankle
is (us|slang) to walk.As an adjective anile is
characteristic of a crone or a feeble old woman.ankle
English
Alternative forms
* ancle (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* ankle-biter * ankle slapper * ankle walker * cankle * show ankleVerb
(ankl)- After a while he got up and ankled his way down the corridor and met Penny coming out of the toilet.
anile
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Adjective
(en adjective)pages 248–249
- Dr. Wittman, too, was passing over the same ground trodden by Bonaparte in his Syrian expedition, and had an ample opportunity of inquiring its probable object, and the probably success which (but for the heroic defence of Acre), might have attended it?;?he was on the theatre of Bonaparte’s imputed crimes, as well as his notorious defeat?;?and might have brought us back, not anile conjecture, but sound evidence of events which must determine his character, who may determine our fate.
page 347
- Romanticism, so sanguine and so venturous in its revolutionary youth, grew anile in its premature decrepitude?;?mumbled its credos?; ?cursed its heretics?—?and died.