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second joint

second joint

5.7
The upper part of a chicken leg between the drumstick and the body
  • noun
  • UK
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  • The recipe calls for two second joints and two drumsticks from a chicken.

Examples

  • The chef expertly cut the second joint from the chicken.

  • Many people prefer the tender meat found in the second joint of the fowl.

  • When cutting up the chicken, I separated the second joint from the rest of the leg.

  • I prefer using the second joint for stews.

  • The chef carefully cut through the second joint of the chicken to separate the drumstick from the body.

  • When preparing the stew, make sure to include the second joint for added flavor.

  • In culinary classes, we learned how to properly dissect the second joint to achieve uniform cooking.

Synonyms

thigh
vssecond joint
17 1.4

The upper part of a bird's leg usually eaten as meat

is the term for the joint between the drumstick and the body

Surface Forms

second joint singular
second joints plural

Morphology

2nd + joint

The phrase is a straightforward ordinal + noun composition: 'second' (the one after the first) + 'joint' (an articulation), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the joint that comes second in sequence (here the upper leg joint of a fowl). This ordinal+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and compositionally transparent, though precise anatomical placement is domain-specific vocabulary.

Etymology

Second joint is the name cooks use for the piece of a bird's leg above the drumstick. When you cut up a chicken the leg has two joints and the higher one is the second joint, so recipes use that name to mean the 'upper joint' of the leg.