thigh

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The part of the leg between the hip and the knee.

   The runner pulled a muscle in his thigh.

2. 2
   noun

   The upper part of the leg of a bird or animal, eaten as meat.

   He grilled some chicken thighs for dinner.

From Middle English thigh, thegh, thiȝ, theȝhe, þigh, þyȝh, from Old English þēoh, þīoh, from Proto-West Germanic *þeuh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. See also West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó; also Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian тук (tuk, “animal fat”).

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