What is the difference between ankle and trousers?
ankle | trousers |
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.
An article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles, and is divided into a separate part for each leg.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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English pluralia tantum
As nouns the difference between ankle and trousers
is that 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 while trousers is an article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles, and is divided into a separate part for each leg.As a verb ankle
is (us|slang) to walk.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.