Topic: FOOD
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| Date: | 1300-1400 |
| Language: | Middle Low German |
| Origin: | knökel 'small bone, knuckle' |
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knuck‧le1
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[countable]1HBH your knuckles are the joints in your fingers, including the ones where your fingers join your hands : Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the gun.
Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the gun.2DF a piece of meat around the lowest leg joint of a pig : a knuckle of pork
a knuckle of pork3 rude, or likely to give offence : Some of his jokes are a bit near the knuckle.
near the knuckle
British English informalSome of his jokes are a bit near the knuckle.
