crook-backn.
/ˈkrʊkbak/, U.S. /ˈkrʊkˌbæk/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back
crooked-rig1382
crouchbackc1491
crook-back?1507
bunch-back1618
crump-backa1661
humpback1697
hunchback1718
huckle-back1762
cyphosis1847
bowbackedness1864
kyphosis-
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 Weil couth I claw his cruke bak.
1709 J. Swift Merlin's Prophecy Bosse, is an old english word for hump-shoulder, or crook-back.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 98 The deformity of a squint eye, red hair, or a crook-back.
2. One who has a crooked back; a hunchback.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back > person
crouchbackc1491
crook-backa1513
urchin1528
lord1653
crump-backa1661
crump1698
hump1708
humpback1712
hunchback1712
crumple-back1845
bible-back1873
knarl-
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxii Edmunde that is of wryters surnamed crowke backe..was put by..for his deformytye.
1574 St. Avstens Manuell in Certaine Prayers S. Augustines Medit. sig. Pvij Any lame man, any crooke backe.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. ii. 96 I Crookbacke, here I stand to answere thee.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xii. 45 Dwarfes, crook-backs or any monstrous persons.
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