crook-backedadj.
/ˈkrʊkbakt/ Having a crooked back: hunchbacked.
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hoveredc897
embossedc1430
bow-backed1470
crook-backed1477
courbe-backed1480
bunch-backed1519
hunchbacked1598
buncht-back1603
crouch-backed1606
hulch1611
hulch-backed1611
hulched1611
crouchback1627
camel-backed1631
huck-backed1631
hulchy1632
boss-backed1640
gibbous1646
huckle-backeda1652
hulck-backed1656
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crump-backeda1661
humpbacked1681
humped1713
humpback1726
humptya1825
hunchy1841
bible-backed1857
crooked-backed1866
cyphotic1889
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 17 The said ypocras was of littel stature grete heded, croke backed.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 37/1 Richarde the thirde sonne..was..croke backed, his left shoulder much higher then his right.
1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xxi. 20 Or crooke-backt or a dwarfe. View more context for this quotation
1826 H. H. Milman Landing at Tower in Anne Boleyn Those poor babes, their crook-back'd uncle murder'd.
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