pigs' knuckles
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7.8
- noun
- /pɪɡz ˈnʌkəlz/
:
manitas de cerdo
- The chef served pigs' knuckles alongside mashed potatoes at the restaurant.
Examples
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For dinner, we had a delicious dish of pigs' knuckles cooked with sauerkraut.
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I was there showing it to him, and there was this customer there buying pig's knuckles.
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He talked of pigs' knuckles and mushrooms and his favorite cuts of beef.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now, Chris, my request for the school to provide you with an alternate victory meal of ribs and pigs' knuckles was denied, but I know as well as you do that you loves you some pizza, right?
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The little house was always full of steam because she was always boiling posole or beans; she would stand in front of the stove and poke sadly at the pigs' knuckles in the pot, and Eloy knew she was thinking about him.
Fiction book (1995) -
My grandmother's recipe for pickled pigs' knuckles is a family favorite.
Synonyms
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5.5
The feet of a pig cooked and eaten, often pickled, stewed, or set in jelly
Surface Forms
Morphology
pigs' + knuckle
This is a straightforward possessive noun phrase: the knuckles (joints/parts) of pigs used as food, so the meaning is directly derivable from 'pig(s)' + 'knuckle'. The composition follows common cross-linguistic patterns for naming animal body parts/food, so an average B1 learner who knows the constituent words will understand it.
Etymology
Pigs' knuckles is named for the knuckles, the joints in a pig's leg that people cook, pickle, or stew. So the name simply means that part of the pig served as 'food'.