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How to pronounce “knuckle”

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Pronunciation guide for knuckle

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of knuckle with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The Pho Cookbookhe had to scrape the bones off until his knuckles bled
Definition summary: Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.

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The Pho Cookbook

he had to scrape the bones off until his knuckles bled

[Noun]
Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
(by extension) A mechanical joint.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
A cut of meat of various kinds.
(obsolete) The joint of a plant.
(shipbuilding) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
(skiing, snowboarding) The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
[Verb]
(transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (noun sense 1).
(transitive, slang) To strike or punch.
(intransitive) To bend the fingers.
(intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
(intransitive, figurative) To yield.
(snowboarding, skiing) To land on the knuckle (noun sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.