English Dictionary

knuckle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnʌkəl/

動詞

他動詞 俗語 自動詞 比喩的用法

(transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles. / (transitive, slang) To strike or punch. / (intransitive) To bend the fingers.

日本語の意味

拳を使って圧力をかけたり、こすったり（マッサージする） / （スラングで）拳で殴る / 指が折れ曲がる、屈曲する

I asked him to knuckle my sore shoulder until the tension eased.

私は彼に拳で痛む肩を揉んでもらい、張りが和らぐまで続けてもらった。

意味（1）

(transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.

He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.

意味（2）

(transitive, slang) To strike or punch.

I could feel my big toe snap, but as he's gone down on his good knee and half swung round I knuckled him in the kidney as hard as I could hit. He's gone all the way down, so I dropped my 19 stone into the middle of his back.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To bend the fingers.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.

意味（5）

(intransitive, figuratively) To yield.

意味（6）

(snowboarding, skiing) To land on the knuckle of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.

knuckles （ present singular third-person ）

knuckling （ participle present ）

knuckled （ participle past ）

knuckled （ past ）