knuckle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 nŭkˈ-əl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
  2. A mechanical joint. broadly
  3. The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
  4. The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
    — With wearie knockles on thy brim she kneeled sadly downe
  5. A cut of meat of various kinds.
    — Beef knuckle is from the knee joint. Pork knuckle, or ham hock, is from the joint between the tibia/fibula and the metatarsals of the foot of a pig, where the foot was attached to the leg.
  6. The joint of a plant. obsolete
    — In the West Indies there are found, even in sandy deserts and very dry places, large canes, which at every joint or knuckle yield a good supply of fresh water
  7. A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
  8. A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
    — brass knuckles
  9. The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
动词 v.
  1. To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (noun sense 1). transitive
    — He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.
  2. To strike or punch. slang,transitive
    — I could feel my big toe snap, but as he's gone down on his good knee and half swung round I knuckled him in the kidney as hard as I could hit. He's gone all the way down, so I dropped my 19 stone into the middle of his back.
  3. To bend the fingers. intransitive
  4. To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect. intransitive
  5. To yield. figuratively,intransitive
  6. To land on the knuckle (noun sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.

词形变化

knuckles plural knuckles present,singular,third-person knuckling participle,present knuckled participle,past knuckled past

词汇关系

衍生词
knuckleball knucklebone knuckleboom knucklecurve knuckleheaded knucklelike knuckler knucklesome knucklewalk knucklewalker knuckly knuckle bow knuckle-buster knuckle children knuckle dragger knuckle-dragging knuckle duster knucklehead knuckle joint knuckle sandwich knuckle-scraper knuckle-tat knuckle-walking bare-knuckle → bare-knuckle boxing brass knuckles five-knuckle shuffle fuck-knuckle interknuckle moose knuckle near the knuckle pea-knuckle → pea-knuckle war white-knuckle → white-knuckle ride

词源

词源 1
From Middle English knokel (“finger joint”), from Old English cnucel (“the juncture of two bones; knuckle; joint”), from Proto-West Germanic *knukil, from Proto-Germanic *knukilaz (“knuckle, knot, bump”), as *knukô (“bone, joint”) + *-ilaz (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Dutch knokkel (“knuckle”), Low German Knökel (“knuckle”), German Knöchel (“ankle, knuckle”), Old Norse knykill. More at knock.
词源 2
From Middle English knokel (“finger joint”), from Old English cnucel (“the juncture of two bones; knuckle; joint”), from Proto-West Germanic *knukil, from Proto-Germanic *knukilaz (“knuckle, knot, bump”), as *knukô (“bone, joint”) + *-ilaz (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Dutch knokkel (“knuckle”), Low German Knökel (“knuckle”), German Knöchel (“ankle, knuckle”), Old Norse knykill. More at knock.
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