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huckle

[ huhk-uhl ]

noun

  1. the hip or haunch.


huckle

/ ˈʌə /

noun

  1. the hip or haunch
  2. a projecting or humped part
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of huckle1

1520–30; obsolete huck hip, haunch (< ?) + -le
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of huckle1

C16: diminutive of Middle English huck hip, haunch; perhaps related to Old Norse ū첹 to squat
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Huckle, from Ashford, Kent, had been serving 22 life sentences after admitting the sexual abuse of up to 200 Malaysian children aged between six months and 12 years.

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The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman said there were "missed opportunities" to identify an increased risk of serious violence leading up to Huckle's death.

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Fitzgerald, who was jailed for 34 years for Huckle's murder, had spoken to prison staff about his "extremely violent fantasies".

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Richard Huckle, 33, died after a 78-minute attack by Paul Fitzgerald, 30, in his cell in October 2019.

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In 1949, three scientists — biomedical scientist John Franklin Enders, virologist Frederick Chapman Robbins, and virologist Thomas Huckle Weller — learned how to grow poliovirus in the laboratory.

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