# huckle
## English
### Etymology

From huck (from Middle English hoke (“hook”), hokebone, probably so called because of its round shape) + -le. See also hook.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhʌkəl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌkəl

### Noun

huckle (plural huckles)
* (obsolete) The hip, the haunch.
** 1676, A Way to Get Wealth, Book I, page 5:[…] which approves a quick gathering up of his legs withoute pain, his huckle bones round and hidden, […]
** 1687, The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha and His Trusty Squire (translated by JP), Book II, page 433:
    At what time Don Quixote, who had very much bruis'd his Huckle-bone, with a Hipshot grace approaching the Lady fell upon his Knees […]
** 1837, John French Burke, British husbandry: exhibiting the farming practice, page 392:Next, the hand may be laid upon his huckle-bones, and if the parts there likewise feel firm, round, and plump, it may be safely concluded that he is well fed both externally and internally, — that is, both in flesh and tallow.
* A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
* (Geordie, derogatory) A homosexual man.
** 2001 March 29, denislindridge [username], “Promotion”, in uk.sport.horseracing‎ (Usenet):When moving into our present dwelling some 6 months ago..the puchase of a new bed was of primary importance.The puchase was completed by a right huckle who didn`t realise the importance of the "squeek" factor in the purchase of such an item.
** 2002, “Bridge Over Troubled Waters”, in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet:He’s not! He can’t be! There's never been a huckle in the Osbourne family, and we can trace our lineage all the way back to the Second World War.
** 2003 December 12, Finchy [username], “Re: Gay bars / Meatloaf - Re: SAFC - Hartlepool”, in alt.sports.soccer.sunderland‎ (Usenet):Sorry ! Only into birds. Why not get yourself along to the SOL. Plenty of huckles there.

#### Derived terms

* huckle bone

### Verb

huckle (third-person singular simple present huckles, present participle huckling, simple past and past participle huckled)
* (Scotland) To apprehend or arrest.
** 2013, Michael Munro, The Crack: The Best of Glasgow Humour:He was awakened by a couple of burly police officers and huckled out to a waiting van.
** 2014, Brian Conaghan, When Mr Dog Bites:Then one day when I was at school, police with motorbike helmets came to the door with a big red battering ram and dragged Dad out of his bed while he was sleeping off a massive booze binge and huckled him downtown to read him his rights, throw the damn book at him and charge him for 'aggravated armed robbery'.
** 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 282:I could huckle your right now for what you've got in that top drawer.

## Swedish
### Noun

huckle n
* a (simpler) headscarf in the form of a shawl

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | huckle | huckles |
| singular | definite | hucklet | hucklets |
| plural | indefinite | hucklen | hucklens |
| plural | definite | hucklena | hucklenas |

#### See also

* huvudduk

### References

* huckle in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* huckle in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* huckle in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)