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HAUNCHED

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haunch

  [hawnch, hahnch]
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–noun
1. the hip.
2. the fleshy part of the body about the hip.
3. a hindquarter of an animal.
4. the leg and loin of an animal, used for food.
5. Architecture.
a. either side of an arch, extending from the vertex or crown to the impost.
b. the part of a beam projecting below a floor or roof slab.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME haunche < OF hanche < Gmc; cf. MD hanke haunch, hip, G Hanke haunch

Related forms:
haunched, adjective
haunchless, adjective
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Word Origin & History

haunch 
c.1225, from O.Fr. hanche, from Frank. *hanka (cf. O.H.G. hinkan "to limp," ancha "leg," lit. "joint;" M.Du. hanke "haunch"), from P.Gmc. *khink-.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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