haunch
pronunciation
How to pronounce haunch in British English:
UK [hɔ:ntʃ]
How to pronounce haunch in American English:
US [hɔntʃ, hɑntʃ]
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- Noun:
- the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings
- the loin and leg of a quadruped
Word Origin
- haunch (n.)
- early 13c., from Old French hanche "hip, thigh; haunch" (12c.), from Frankish *hanka or a similar Germanic source (cognates: Old High German hinkan "to limp," ancha "leg," literally "joint;" Middle Dutch hanke "haunch"). "It is only since the 18th c. that the spelling haunch has displaced hanch" [OED]. Related: Haunches.