How do you pronounce shanked?

The recorded pronunciation is /ʃæŋkt/.

shanked

/ʃæŋkt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English

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adj

"'It is the top of a pearl boot button undoubtedly, I should say,' pronounced the sergeant. 'One of those metal-shanked things that they wire into the boot nowadays. […]'"
"Your Muscat Grapes are both shanked and scalded ; the latter can be easily remedied, but the former is more difficult."

unshanked

red-shanked douc spindle-shanked

ranked thanked flanked banked yanked spanked cranked tanked blanked sacrosanct pranked franked

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