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"ref": "2001, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Shallow Hal",
"text": "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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"ref": "2004, Jeff Smith, Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide",
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"ref": "2005, Franz Wisner, Honeymoon with my Brother",
"text": "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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"ref": "2007, “Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey”, in Family Guy, season 5, episode 13",
"text": "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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"ref": "2008 September 13, Saturday Night Live, spoken by Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler)",
"text": "Stop saying I have cankles!",
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"ref": "2017 January 27, Pierre Andre, Eckart Haneke, Leonardo Marini, Christopher Rowland Payne, Cosmetic Medicine and Surgery, CRC Press",
"text": "Laserassisted lipolysis for cankle remodelling: A prospective study in 30 patients. Lasers Med Sci 2014; 29:131–136. Leclère FM, Trelles M, MorenoMoraga J, Servell P, Unglaub F, Mordon SR. 980nm laser lipolysis (LAL): About 674[…]",
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"(originally slang, usually derogatory) An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation."
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"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "胖腳踝"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "pàng jiǎohuái",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "胖脚踝"
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"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "腳踝贅肉"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎohuái zhuì ròu",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "脚踝赘肉"
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"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
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"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "paksu nilkka"
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"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
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"roman": "raspúxšaja ščíkolotka",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
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"masculine"
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"word": "tobillo hinchado"
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},
{
"ref": "2004, Jeff Smith, Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide",
"text": "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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},
{
"ref": "2005, Franz Wisner, Honeymoon with my Brother",
"text": "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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},
{
"ref": "2007, “Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey”, in Family Guy, season 5, episode 13",
"text": "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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},
{
"ref": "2008 September 13, Saturday Night Live, spoken by Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler)",
"text": "Stop saying I have cankles!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017 January 27, Pierre Andre, Eckart Haneke, Leonardo Marini, Christopher Rowland Payne, Cosmetic Medicine and Surgery, CRC Press",
"text": "Laserassisted lipolysis for cankle remodelling: A prospective study in 30 patients. Lasers Med Sci 2014; 29:131–136. Leclère FM, Trelles M, MorenoMoraga J, Servell P, Unglaub F, Mordon SR. 980nm laser lipolysis (LAL): About 674[…]",
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"(originally slang, usually derogatory) An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation."
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"usually"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "胖腳踝"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pàng jiǎohuái",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "胖脚踝"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "腳踝贅肉"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎohuái zhuì ròu",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "脚踝赘肉"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "kenkel"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"word": "paksu nilkka"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"singular"
],
"word": "Stamper"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"singular"
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"word": "Stamperl (Austro-Bavarian)"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"singular"
],
"word": "Krautstampfer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"singular"
],
"word": "Wurstknöchel"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "raspúxšaja ščíkolotka",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "распу́хшая щи́колотка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an obese or otherwise swollen ankle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tobillo hinchado"
}
],
"word": "cankle"
}
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