Cankle vs Cackle - What's the difference?
cankle | cackle |
(slang, pejorative) An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation.
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* 2007 , Family Guy , season 5, "Bill And Peter's Bogus Journey":
* 2008 , 13 September, Saturday Night Live :
The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg
A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
* Shakespeare
To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
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, chapter=2 To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
As nouns the difference between cankle and cackle
is that cankle is an obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation while cackle is the cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.As a verb cackle is
to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.cankle
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Now that's a cankle! Where does the calf fat end and the ankle fat begin? Who knows, that's the fun!
- Amy Poeler as Hillary Clinton: Stop saying I have cankles !
cackle
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en-verb)- When every goose is cackling .
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
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