haunch
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Noun — The hip, buttock and top of the thigh together, on one side of the body, especially in an animal that can sit back on its haunches.
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Etymology
Traces back through Middle English haunche and hanche to Old French hanche, hance and anche (compare French hanche, Italian anca), from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *ankijā, from Proto-Germanic *ankijǭ ("joint; ankle"), from Proto-Indo-European *ang- ("joint; lith"). It is cognate with Old High German ancha, en...
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