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Huckle vs Hurkle - What's the difference?

huckle | hurkle |

As a noun huckle

is (label) the hip, the haunch.

As a verb hurkle is

to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.

huckle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) The hip, the haunch.
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  • * 1687 , The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha and His Trusty Squire (translated by JP), Book II, page 433:
  • * 1837 , John French Burke, British husbandry: exhibiting the farming practice , page 392:
  • A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
    • (Udall)
  • A homosexual man.
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    • hurkle

    English

    Alternative forms

    *hurple, hirple, hurtle

    Verb

  • to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold
  • to cower
  • (of the limbs) to contract, to pull in
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