crookedadj.

/ˈkrʊkɪd/

Forms: Middle English–1500s croked, Middle English–1500s crokid, crokyd, (Middle English kr-), Middle English cruked, ( crowkyt), 1500s Scottish crukit, 1600s (Shaks.) crook'd, Middle English– crooked.

Etymology: Partly past participle of crook v.¹, partly < crook n. + -ed suffix¹, as in hunched, etc.: the formation from the noun may even have been the earlier.

a. Bent from the straight form; having (one or more) bends or angles; curved, bent, twisted, tortuous, wry. Applied to everything which is not ‘straight’ (of which crooked is now the ordinary opposite).

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the world > space > shape > curvature > [adjective]

crooked?c1225

roundc1300

ybentc1330

bentc1374

cambera1387

curvate?a1425

curve?a1425

curved?a1425

bowingc1440

crumped1480

bowed1483

bended1495

bowlanda1522

compass?1523

curbed?1541

compassed1551

compassing1576

curvated1598

orbed1598

curving1609

ridgill-backed1611

incurved1623

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curvous1661

incurvated1665

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bending1697

circumflex1707

curval1730

sweeping1772

bendy1800

curvatureda1810

curvative1846

hooped1852

swept1903

the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > crooked

wough862

crumba1100

wrongc1175

crooked?c1225

crochedc1300

forcrookedc1305

miscrookeda1398

crumpleda1400

kirkeda1425

camshoch1513

crooken1589

awry1728

thraward1814

ajee1816

ahoo1828

crinkly-crankly1850

unstraight1860

cockeye1891

cockeyed1899

crookedy1907

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 81 Þe cat of helle..wið crokede crokes.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxvii. 1 Leuyathan a crookid wounde serpent.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 29 Shal neuere..on croked kene þorne kynde fygys wexe.

a1450 Knt. de la Tour 23 Al her lyff after she hadd her nose al croked.

c1460 Medulla Gram. in Promptorium Parvulorum 80 Cambuca, a buschoppys cros or a crokid staf.

1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Luke iii. 5 Crocked thinges shalbe made streight.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i All other lines, that go not right forth..but boweth any waye..are called Croked lynes.

1591 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao ii. i Juniper, the longer it grew, the crookeder it wexed.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 55 If the drinke..touch my Palat aduersly, I make a crooked face at it.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xvi. 111 Shipwrights and boatmakers will choose those crooked pieces of timber.

1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 27 May in Wks. (1955) VII. 283 Streets open, pleasant but crooked.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 29 That faulchion's crooked blade.

b. crooked stick: see stick n.¹ 13.

a. Of persons: Having the body or limbs bent out of shape; deformed; bent or bowed with age. Hence transferred as an epithet of age.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [adjective]

crumpa800

crookedc1290

counterfeited1340

courbe1395

crumpleda1400

wanshapena1425

courbedc1430

wrongc1430

crumped1480

mismadec1480

counterfeit1483

crabby1550

crab-tree-like1576

crab-tree1598

crabbed1601

bossive1658

stumping1852

arthritic1961

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 34/18 He..maude hole..Meseles and þe crokede.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 186 Ac calleth þe careful þer-to þe croked and þe pore.

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. xxx In my croked age.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxiii. 68 The crokyd dwarfe.

1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 67 A Sybil old, bow-bent with crooked age.

1719 Free-thinker No. 92. 1 You would have thought she had been crooked from her Infancy.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xv. 299 A pert crooked little chit.

†b. of an old decrepit horse. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. lxxxiv Whan that knyghte sawe sire palomydes bounden vpon a croked courser.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Q There is not so croked a hors.

3. figurative.

a. The reverse of ‘straight’ in figurative senses (esp. with reference to moral character and conduct); deviating from rectitude or uprightness; not straightforward; dishonest, wrong, perverse; perverted, out of order, awry.

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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [adjective]

crooked?c1225

sinister?1455

indirect1570

undirect1594

involved1612

obliquous1614

unstraight1650

back-handed1800

tortuous1801

twistical1805

louche1819

hooky-crooky1833

underhand1842

twisty1857

underhanded1864

bent1914

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > not straightforward

crooked?c1225

indirect1570

undirect1594

involved1612

unstraight1650

obliquous1757

tortuous1801

twistical1805

louche1819

hooky-crooky1833

sinuous1850

twisty1905

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > perverse

wharfedc1175

thwart-over?c1225

fromwardc1275

thwarta1325

wilgernc1325

contrariousa1340

froward1340

rebours1340

awaywarda1375

overthwartc1384

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waywardc1384

arsewardc1386

wrawc1386

wrawfulc1386

crabbeda1400

ungraitha1400

wraweda1400

awklyc1400

perversec1425

awkc1440

perversiosec1475

crooked1508

wrayward1516

awkward1530

difficilec1533

peevish1539

protervous1547

overthwarting1552

untowardly1561

difficult1589

cross1594

cama1600

frowish1601

awkwardish1613

haggardly1635

pigheadeda1637

cross-grained1647

wry1649

crossfulc1680

thwarting1718

kim-kama1734

wronghead1737

piggish1742

witherly1790

top-thrawn1808

contrary1850

cussed1858

three-cornered1863

thwarteous1890

bloody-minded1935

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 81 Þe cat of helle..wið crokede crokes & kene fondunges.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxi. 14 Krokid of hert ere þa.

1508 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) I. 240 The wyll of some is so croked.

1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxxii. 5 They are a peruerse and crooked generation.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. i. 23 If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. xvii. 204 A very crooked Objection both from the Jew and Atheist.

1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 36 Of crooked Counsels and dark Politicks.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. xv. 132 This young Gentleman, tho' somewhat crooked in his Morals, was perfectly strait in his Person.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues III. 244 Perfect in the practice of crooked ways.

b. colloquial. Dishonestly come by; made, obtained, or sold in a way that is not straightforward.

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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [adjective] > dishonestly obtained

cross1819

crooked1864

the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > by irregular means

crooked1864

cross1892

kinky1927

hot-stuffed1929

scrounged1941

organized1957

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 112 Crooked, a term used among dog-stealers, and the ‘fancy’ generally, to denote anything stolen.

1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 301 Another house testified..that half its entire annual product was ‘crooked’.

1891 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Crooked whiskey, illicitly distilled whiskey upon which no excise has been paid.

1892 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Nevermore I. x. 180 He was riding a crooked horse when he was took.

1898 Daily News 27 Aug. 6/6 Telling him that he rather thought he had bought ‘a crooked lot’.

1902 Daily Chron. 26 Aug. 6/6 In the event of his being found..to be dealing in ‘crooked’ things, or refusing to give information as to where he got his stuff.

c. Australian and New Zealand slang. = crook adj. 2c; esp. in crooked on, angry at. Usually pronounced /krʊkt/.

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the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective]

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gramec893

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bolghenc1000

gramelyc1000

hotOE

on fireOE

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to-bollenc1175

wrethfulc1175

wraw?c1225

agrameda1300

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agremedc1300

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aniredc1350

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irefula1400

mada1400

teena1400

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angryc1405

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angereda1425

passionatec1425

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tangylc1440

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angerful?1533

wrothful?1534

wrath1535

provoked1538

warm1547

vibrant1575

chauffe1582

fuming1582

enfeloned1596

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choleric1598

inflameda1600

raiseda1600

exasperate1601

angried1609

exasperated1611

dispassionate1635

bristlinga1639

peltish1648

sultry1671

on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672

nangry1681

ugly1687

sorea1694

glimflashy1699

enraged1732

spunky1809

cholerous1822

kwaai1827

wrathy1828

angersome1834

outraged1836

irate1838

vex1843

raring1845

waxy1853

stiff1856

scotty1867

bristly1872

hot under the collar1879

black angry1894

spitfire1894

passionful1901

ignorant1913

hairy1914

snaky1919

steamed1923

uptight1934

broigus1937

lemony1941

ripped1941

pissed1943

crooked1945

teed off1955

ticked off1959

ripe1966

torqued1967

bummed1970

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective]

sharpc1000

impatient1377

out-sharpinga1382

teethya1500

fumish1523

testy1526

crabbed1535

tettish1567

peevish1577

kickish1589

splenetic1593

spleenful1594

tetchy1596

wasp-stung1598

touchy1602

spleeny1604

pruriginous1609

teety1621

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Scot1916

crooked1945

niggly1952

snooty1959

kvetchy1965

to be on the rag1967

sandpaper1976

gribble1984

splenous-

1945 L. Glassop We were Rats i. viii. 48 Ya oughtn' ter feel crooked on things. I s'pose it's because Bertha's outa town?

1957 ‘N. Culotta’ They're Weird Mob (1958) vi. 86 ‘Are you not ashamed of yourself?’ ‘Yeah, I'm real crooked on me.’

4. quasi-adv. In a crooked course or position; not straight.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > askew

acrooka1387

wrongc1440

overthwartlya1470

adoylea1475

awry1487

crooked1545

across1559

askew1565

cam1579

alurk1581

skew-whiff1754

a-twist1755

agley1786

skeow-ways1869

off-kilter1929

the world > space > direction > [adverb] > off the direct line > bendingly or windingly

a-crooka1387

acrooka1387

crooked1545

windingly1576

bendingly1658

serpentinely1762

tortuously1839

meanderingly1865

snakily1870

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 21 If the yonge tree growe croked.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xix. 126 Sche ȝeid crukit bakuart and on syd.

1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 220 Pictures..which were hung up all crooked.

Compounds

C1. parasynthetic, as crooked-backed, crooked-clawed, crooked-eyed, crooked-houghed, crooked-legged, crooked-lined, crooked-lipped, crooked-neck(ed) (spec. applied to a variety of squash: cf. crook-neck n.; U.S.), crooked-pated, crooked-shouldered, etc. adjs.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of shoulders

crooked-shoulderedc1515

crump-shouldered1542

out-shouldered1579

crook-shouldered1580

round-shouldered1586

crumped-shouldered1603

round1702

hump-shouldereda1704

stoop-shouldered1748

huck-shouldered1847

the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of legs > having

leglessc1390

bow-legged1552

crook-legged1580

shackle-hammed1592

baker-kneed1611

baker-legged1611

buckle-hammed1629

out-shinned1682

bandy-legged1688

crooked-legged1691

shackled-ham'd1733

badger-legged1738

tailor-legged1768

knock-kneed1774

scissor-legged1880

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [adjective] > of or relating to squash or pumpkin

crooked-neck(ed)1784

summer squash1801

crook-necked1818

the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back

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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

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humptya1825

hunchy1841

bible-backed1857

crooked-backed1866

cyphotic1889

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxi. 63 He is..crokyd shulderyd.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 79 A crooked-pated olde..Ramme.

1691 London Gaz. No. 2691/4 A dark brown-bay Mare..crooked Legg'd behind.

1784 Massachusetts Spy 22 Apr. 1/1 Crooked neck squash.

1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 30 Like nice crook'd neck'd squash on the ground.

1841 Lowell (Mass.) Offering 1 79 Over the fire-place was our crooked necked squashes.

1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 321 These here crooked-clawed birds.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. ii. 30 Small and crooked-backed.

1870 C. D. Warner My Summer in Garden viii. 104 The summer squash..was nearly all leaf and blow, with only a sickly crooked-necked fruit after a mighty fuss.

C2.

crooked-bill n. a name for the avocet n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > member of genus Recurvirostra (avocet)

scooper1668

shoeing-horn1668

crooked-bill1705

cobbler's awl1759

picarini1770

yelper1770

avocet1771

scooping avocet1776

red-necked avocet1823

bluestocking1844

shoehorn1864

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xv. 264 Crooked-bills and several sorts of Snipes.

† crooked-rig n. Obsolete (rig = back), crook-back.

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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-

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xxi. 20 If crokid rigge or bleer eyed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	crooked
释义	crookedadj. /ˈkrʊkɪd/ Forms: Middle English–1500s croked, Middle English–1500s crokid, crokyd, (Middle English kr-), Middle English cruked, ( crowkyt), 1500s Scottish crukit, 1600s (Shaks.) crook'd, Middle English– crooked. Etymology: Partly past participle of crook v.¹, partly < crook n. + -ed suffix¹, as in hunched, etc.: the formation from the noun may even have been the earlier. 1. a. Bent from the straight form; having (one or more) bends or angles; curved, bent, twisted, tortuous, wry. Applied to everything which is not ‘straight’ (of which crooked is now the ordinary opposite). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [adjective] crooked?c1225 roundc1300 ybentc1330 bentc1374 cambera1387 curvate?a1425 curve?a1425 curved?a1425 bowingc1440 crumped1480 bowed1483 bended1495 bowlanda1522 compass?1523 curbed?1541 compassed1551 compassing1576 curvated1598 orbed1598 curving1609 ridgill-backed1611 incurved1623 inflected1646 incurvate1647 curvous1661 incurvated1665 swayed1688 bending1697 circumflex1707 curval1730 sweeping1772 bendy1800 curvatureda1810 curvative1846 hooped1852 swept1903 the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > crooked wough862 crumba1100 wrongc1175 crooked?c1225 crochedc1300 forcrookedc1305 miscrookeda1398 crumpleda1400 kirkeda1425 camshoch1513 crooken1589 awry1728 thraward1814 ajee1816 ahoo1828 crinkly-crankly1850 unstraight1860 cockeye1891 cockeyed1899 crookedy1907 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 81 Þe cat of helle..wið crokede crokes. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxvii. 1 Leuyathan a crookid wounde serpent. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 29 Shal neuere..on croked kene þorne kynde fygys wexe. a1450 Knt. de la Tour 23 Al her lyff after she hadd her nose al croked. c1460 Medulla Gram. in Promptorium Parvulorum 80 Cambuca, a buschoppys cros or a crokid staf. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Luke iii. 5 Crocked thinges shalbe made streight. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i All other lines, that go not right forth..but boweth any waye..are called Croked lynes. 1591 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao ii. i Juniper, the longer it grew, the crookeder it wexed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 55 If the drinke..touch my Palat aduersly, I make a crooked face at it. View more context for this quotation 1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xvi. 111 Shipwrights and boatmakers will choose those crooked pieces of timber. 1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 27 May in Wks. (1955) VII. 283 Streets open, pleasant but crooked. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 29 That faulchion's crooked blade. b. crooked stick: see stick n.¹ 13. 2. a. Of persons: Having the body or limbs bent out of shape; deformed; bent or bowed with age. Hence transferred as an epithet of age. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [adjective] crumpa800 crookedc1290 counterfeited1340 courbe1395 crumpleda1400 wanshapena1425 courbedc1430 wrongc1430 crumped1480 mismadec1480 counterfeit1483 crabby1550 crab-tree-like1576 crab-tree1598 crabbed1601 bossive1658 stumping1852 arthritic1961 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 34/18 He..maude hole..Meseles and þe crokede. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 186 Ac calleth þe careful þer-to þe croked and þe pore. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. xxx In my croked age. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxiii. 68 The crokyd dwarfe. 1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 67 A Sybil old, bow-bent with crooked age. 1719 Free-thinker No. 92. 1 You would have thought she had been crooked from her Infancy. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xv. 299 A pert crooked little chit. †b. of an old decrepit horse. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. lxxxiv Whan that knyghte sawe sire palomydes bounden vpon a croked courser. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Q There is not so croked a hors. 3. figurative. a. The reverse of ‘straight’ in figurative senses (esp. with reference to moral character and conduct); deviating from rectitude or uprightness; not straightforward; dishonest, wrong, perverse; perverted, out of order, awry. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [adjective] crooked?c1225 sinister?1455 indirect1570 undirect1594 involved1612 obliquous1614 unstraight1650 back-handed1800 tortuous1801 twistical1805 louche1819 hooky-crooky1833 underhand1842 twisty1857 underhanded1864 bent1914 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > not straightforward crooked?c1225 indirect1570 undirect1594 involved1612 unstraight1650 obliquous1757 tortuous1801 twistical1805 louche1819 hooky-crooky1833 sinuous1850 twisty1905 the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > perverse wharfedc1175 thwart-over?c1225 fromwardc1275 thwarta1325 wilgernc1325 contrariousa1340 froward1340 rebours1340 awaywarda1375 overthwartc1384 protervec1384 waywardc1384 arsewardc1386 wrawc1386 wrawfulc1386 crabbeda1400 ungraitha1400 wraweda1400 awklyc1400 perversec1425 awkc1440 perversiosec1475 crooked1508 wrayward1516 awkward1530 difficilec1533 peevish1539 protervous1547 overthwarting1552 untowardly1561 difficult1589 cross1594 cama1600 frowish1601 awkwardish1613 haggardly1635 pigheadeda1637 cross-grained1647 wry1649 crossfulc1680 thwarting1718 kim-kama1734 wronghead1737 piggish1742 witherly1790 top-thrawn1808 contrary1850 cussed1858 three-cornered1863 thwarteous1890 bloody-minded1935 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 81 Þe cat of helle..wið crokede crokes & kene fondunges. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxi. 14 Krokid of hert ere þa. 1508 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) I. 240 The wyll of some is so croked. 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxxii. 5 They are a peruerse and crooked generation. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. i. 23 If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. View more context for this quotation 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. xvii. 204 A very crooked Objection both from the Jew and Atheist. 1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 36 Of crooked Counsels and dark Politicks. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. xv. 132 This young Gentleman, tho' somewhat crooked in his Morals, was perfectly strait in his Person. View more context for this quotation 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues III. 244 Perfect in the practice of crooked ways. b. colloquial. Dishonestly come by; made, obtained, or sold in a way that is not straightforward. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [adjective] > dishonestly obtained cross1819 crooked1864 the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > by irregular means crooked1864 cross1892 kinky1927 hot-stuffed1929 scrounged1941 organized1957 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 112 Crooked, a term used among dog-stealers, and the ‘fancy’ generally, to denote anything stolen. 1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 301 Another house testified..that half its entire annual product was ‘crooked’. 1891 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Crooked whiskey, illicitly distilled whiskey upon which no excise has been paid. 1892 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Nevermore I. x. 180 He was riding a crooked horse when he was took. 1898 Daily News 27 Aug. 6/6 Telling him that he rather thought he had bought ‘a crooked lot’. 1902 Daily Chron. 26 Aug. 6/6 In the event of his being found..to be dealing in ‘crooked’ things, or refusing to give information as to where he got his stuff. c. Australian and New Zealand slang. = crook adj. 2c; esp. in crooked on, angry at. Usually pronounced /krʊkt/. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective] irrec825 gramec893 wemodc897 wrothc950 bolghenc1000 gramelyc1000 hotOE on fireOE brathc1175 moodyc1175 to-bollenc1175 wrethfulc1175 wraw?c1225 agrameda1300 wrathfula1300 agremedc1300 hastivec1300 irousa1340 wretheda1340 aniredc1350 felonc1374 angryc1380 upreareda1382 jealous1382 crousea1400 grieveda1400 irefula1400 mada1400 teena1400 wraweda1400 wretthy14.. angryc1405 errevousa1420 wrothy1422 angereda1425 passionatec1425 fumous1430 tangylc1440 heavy1452 fire angry1490 wrothsomea1529 angerful?1533 wrothful?1534 wrath1535 provoked1538 warm1547 vibrant1575 chauffe1582 fuming1582 enfeloned1596 incensed1597 choleric1598 inflameda1600 raiseda1600 exasperate1601 angried1609 exasperated1611 dispassionate1635 bristlinga1639 peltish1648 sultry1671 on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672 nangry1681 ugly1687 sorea1694 glimflashy1699 enraged1732 spunky1809 cholerous1822 kwaai1827 wrathy1828 angersome1834 outraged1836 irate1838 vex1843 raring1845 waxy1853 stiff1856 scotty1867 bristly1872 hot under the collar1879 black angry1894 spitfire1894 passionful1901 ignorant1913 hairy1914 snaky1919 steamed1923 uptight1934 broigus1937 lemony1941 ripped1941 pissed1943 crooked1945 teed off1955 ticked off1959 ripe1966 torqued1967 bummed1970 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] sharpc1000 impatient1377 out-sharpinga1382 teethya1500 fumish1523 testy1526 crabbed1535 tettish1567 peevish1577 kickish1589 splenetic1593 spleenful1594 tetchy1596 wasp-stung1598 touchy1602 spleeny1604 pruriginous1609 teety1621 splenitive1633 peltish1648 irritable1662 splenatic1663 splenetive1678 unheer1691 rusty1694 nettlesome1766 stingy1781 snarly1798 tutty1809 spleenical1818 rileya1824 nettly1825 edgy1837 porcupinal1846 shirty1846 raspish1854 peckish1857 streaky1860 owly1864 teasy1866 fussy1869 raspy1869 spiky1881 chippyc1885 tetchous1890 narky1895 snarky1906 ringy1907 snarkish1912 Scot1916 crooked1945 niggly1952 snooty1959 kvetchy1965 to be on the rag1967 sandpaper1976 gribble1984 splenous- 1945 L. Glassop We were Rats i. viii. 48 Ya oughtn' ter feel crooked on things. I s'pose it's because Bertha's outa town? 1957 ‘N. Culotta’ They're Weird Mob (1958) vi. 86 ‘Are you not ashamed of yourself?’ ‘Yeah, I'm real crooked on me.’ 4. quasi-adv. In a crooked course or position; not straight. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > askew acrooka1387 wrongc1440 overthwartlya1470 adoylea1475 awry1487 crooked1545 across1559 askew1565 cam1579 alurk1581 skew-whiff1754 a-twist1755 agley1786 skeow-ways1869 off-kilter1929 the world > space > direction > [adverb] > off the direct line > bendingly or windingly a-crooka1387 acrooka1387 crooked1545 windingly1576 bendingly1658 serpentinely1762 tortuously1839 meanderingly1865 snakily1870 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 21 If the yonge tree growe croked. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xix. 126 Sche ȝeid crukit bakuart and on syd. 1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 220 Pictures..which were hung up all crooked. Compounds C1. parasynthetic, as crooked-backed, crooked-clawed, crooked-eyed, crooked-houghed, crooked-legged, crooked-lined, crooked-lipped, crooked-neck(ed) (spec. applied to a variety of squash: cf. crook-neck n.; U.S.), crooked-pated, crooked-shouldered, etc. adjs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of shoulders crooked-shoulderedc1515 crump-shouldered1542 out-shouldered1579 crook-shouldered1580 round-shouldered1586 crumped-shouldered1603 round1702 hump-shouldereda1704 stoop-shouldered1748 huck-shouldered1847 the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of legs > having leglessc1390 bow-legged1552 crook-legged1580 shackle-hammed1592 baker-kneed1611 baker-legged1611 buckle-hammed1629 out-shinned1682 bandy-legged1688 crooked-legged1691 shackled-ham'd1733 badger-legged1738 tailor-legged1768 knock-kneed1774 scissor-legged1880 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [adjective] > of or relating to squash or pumpkin crooked-neck(ed)1784 summer squash1801 crook-necked1818 the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back 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 hunched1656 crump-backeda1661 humpbacked1681 humped1713 humpback1726 humptya1825 hunchy1841 bible-backed1857 crooked-backed1866 cyphotic1889 c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxi. 63 He is..crokyd shulderyd. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 79 A crooked-pated olde..Ramme. View more context for this quotation 1691 London Gaz. No. 2691/4 A dark brown-bay Mare..crooked Legg'd behind. 1784 Massachusetts Spy 22 Apr. 1/1 Crooked neck squash. 1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 30 Like nice crook'd neck'd squash on the ground. 1841 Lowell (Mass.) Offering 1 79 Over the fire-place was our crooked necked squashes. 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 321 These here crooked-clawed birds. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. ii. 30 Small and crooked-backed. 1870 C. D. Warner My Summer in Garden viii. 104 The summer squash..was nearly all leaf and blow, with only a sickly crooked-necked fruit after a mighty fuss. C2. crooked-bill n. a name for the avocet n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > member of genus Recurvirostra (avocet) scooper1668 shoeing-horn1668 crooked-bill1705 cobbler's awl1759 picarini1770 yelper1770 avocet1771 scooping avocet1776 red-necked avocet1823 bluestocking1844 shoehorn1864 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xv. 264 Crooked-bills and several sorts of Snipes. † crooked-rig n. Obsolete (rig = back), crook-back. 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- 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xxi. 20 If crokid rigge or bleer eyed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.?c1225
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