suffraginous

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/səˈfɹæd͡ʒɪnəs/

adjective

Of or relating to the hock of an animal.

OriginLatin suffraginosus →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

adjectivesuffraginous (not comparable)
  1. nonce wordnot comparableobsoleteOf or relating to the hock of an animal.
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    The different flexure and order of the joints might also countenance the same, being not disposed in the Elephant, as they are in other quadrupedes, but carry a nearer conformity unto those of Man; that is, the bought of the fore-legs, not directly backward, but laterally and somewhat inward; but the hough or suffraginous flexure behind rather outward.

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinsuffraginosus“diseased in the hock”
  2. Englishsuffraginous

From Latin suffraginosus (“diseased in the hock”), from suffrago (“the pastern, or hock”).

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Chicago

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