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Ankle vs Unblouse - What's the difference?

ankle | unblouse |

As verbs the difference between ankle and unblouse

is that ankle is (us|slang) to walk while unblouse is (military) to untuck (leggings from footwear); to make (pants or trousers) unrestricted or untightened at the ankle, often as a sign of rank or service.

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.

ankle

English

Alternative forms

* ancle (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * ankle-biter * ankle slapper * ankle walker * cankle * show ankle

    Verb

    (ankl)
  • (US, slang) To walk.
  • * 2009 , Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, p. 275:
    • After a while he got up and ankled his way down the corridor and met Penny coming out of the toilet.
  • (cycling) To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.

    • unblouse

    English

    Verb

    (unblous)
  • (military) To untuck (leggings from footwear); to make (pants or trousers) unrestricted or untightened at the ankle, often as a sign of rank or service.
  • * 2002 , Jack Allsup, Mountains of Hope , page 50
    • Some straight legs caught a trooper at the post exchange (PX) one day and made him unblouse his boots.
  • * 2003 , Edward F. Fitzgerald, Bank's Bandits , page 162
    • "Alright men. Lay your ponchos out on the ground and take everything out of your rucksacks. Empty your pockets, too. Everything goes on the poncho. Hurry up! We haven't got all day.
    "You, Parker! Unblouse' those boots. Do it! What's all this shit? Cans of Spam. Tuna fish. Nice try, Asshole. Okay, ''everybody''. ' Unblouse those boots."
  • * 2004 , Ed Ruggero, Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault Into Fortress Europe, July 1943 , page 89
    • Not only were the soldiers not allowed to tell anyone what was happening, but they had to remove their shoulder patches and the airborne patches from their hats, take off their jump wings, and unblouse their trousers to hide their jump boots.
  • * 2006 , Major Richard D. Winters, Beyond Band of Brothers , page 37
    • In front of the entire regiment, the condemned trooper was forced to unblouse his trousers, remove his airborne boots, and replace them with regular shoes.

    Antonyms

    * (military) blouse

    Related terms

    * blouse * deblouse

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