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.
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Cankle
//ˈkæŋkəl//
Synonyms for "cankle"
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13 translations across 9 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 胖腳踝 /胖脚踝 noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
- 腳踝贅肉 /脚踝赘肉 noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
Dutch
1 entries- kenkel noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
Finnish
1 entries- paksu nilkka noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
French
1 entries- cheville enflée noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
German
4 entries- Krautstampfer noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
- Stamper noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
- Stamperl (Austro-Bavarian) noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
- Wurstknöchel noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
Hungarian
1 entries- bokaödéma noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
Portuguese
1 entries- tornozelo inchado noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
Russian
1 entries- распу́хшая щи́колотка noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
Spanish
1 entries- tobillo hinchado noun (an obese or otherwise swollen ankle)
Sample sentences
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The “cankle” (or the appearance of not having an ankle, but the calf of the leg just connecting to the foot) is a look that many women have and most could live without.
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They’d pass me magazines and ask how my cankle recovery was progressing. They’re ankles, not cankles. I don’t have cankles!
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Now that's a cankle! Where does the calf fat end and the ankle fat begin? Who knows, that's the fun!
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