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Definition of Knuckle under
1. Verb. Consent reluctantly.
Generic synonyms: Accept, Consent, Go For
Specialized synonyms: Accede, Bow, Defer, Give In, Submit
Derivative terms: Yielding
Definition of Knuckle under
1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To yield or cooperate when pressured or forced to do so. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knuckle Under
Literary usage of Knuckle under
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"KNUCKLE-UNDER, v. to humiliate oneself; to take the second place. COLL. Us*.
If hoo once gets thee to knuckle-under tha's done for. 1881. ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"was formerly the knee, hence to knuckle under meant simply to kneel in submission.
From a modem misapprehension of the expression to knuckle under arose the ..."
3. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"He shows a stiff front now bud he'll ha' to knuckle under,"—to give in to what will
... He's bed to knuckle under sin' hes t' poor fellah! " KOL. To curl. ..."
4. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"KNUCKLE-UNDER, v. to humiliate oneself; to take the second place. COLL. USE.
If hoo once gets thee to knuckle-under tha's done for. 1881. ..."
5. Individuality and the Moral Aim in American Education: The Gilchrist Report by Harry Thiselton Mark (1901)
"Few things in educational science are more clearly established than this : That
if a teacher or a parent makes a child knuckle under to him, the child is in ..."
6. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1877)
"... at least hold their own against it—or, as they would put it themselves, those
who knuckle under to poverty, and those who won't knuckle under to it. ..."
7. New York Teachers' Monographs by Sidney Marsden Fuerst (1899)
"Few things in educational science are more clearly established than this: That
if a teacher or a parent makes a child knuckle under to him, the child is in ..."
8. Materia Medica Pura by Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1880)
"The knees knuckle under him when standing (aft. i h.). [ATr.] 455. Sometimes in
the knee a sudden loss of power ; they knuckle under him, whilst the feet ..."
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