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crook

noun

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verb

  1. (cause to) bend
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kɹʊk/ / [kɹ̠̊˔ʷʊk] / /kɹʉk/

adj

Etymology: From crooked (“dishonestly come by”).

  1. Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.

    “That work you did on my car is crook, mate.”

    “Not turning up for training was pretty crook.”

  2. Ill, sick.

    “I′m feeling a bit crook.”

  3. Annoyed, angry; upset.

    “be crook at/about; go crook at”

    “Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.”

name

Etymology: * The English surname is derived from the noun crook (“bend, hook”). * The places in Durham and Cumbria are of Brythonic origin, from crug (“hill, mound”).

  1. A town (unparished) in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1635).
  2. A village and civil parish (served by Crook and Winster Parish Council) in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD4695).
  3. A statutory town in Logan County, Colorado, United States, named after George Crook.
  4. An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States, so named because of a local merchant's business practices (thus being derived from crook (thief)).
  5. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *crōc (“hook, bend, crook”), from Proto-West Germanic *krōk, from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“bend, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, bend”). Cognate with Dutch kreuk (“a bend, fold, wrinkle”), Middle Low German kroke, krake (“fold, wrinkle”), Danish krog (“crook, hook”), Swedish krok (“crook, hook”), Icelandic krókur (“hook”). Compare typologically Czech křivák (< křivý < Proto-Slavic *krivъ, whence also *krivьda).

  1. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

    “She held the baby in the crook of her arm.”

    “he walks bye lanes, and crooks”

  2. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
  3. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).

    “the crook of a cane”

    “It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.”

  4. A lock or curl of hair.
  5. A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
  6. A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.

    “Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.”

  7. A bishop's standard staff of office.
  8. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.

    “for all your brags, hooks, and crooks”

  9. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.

    “In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.”

    “1973 November 17, Richard Nixon, reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post, Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’, "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I′m not a crook. I′ve earned everything I′ve got."”

  10. A pothook.
  11. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English crooken, croken, crokien, from Old English *crōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *krōkōn (“to bend, wrinkle”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Dutch kreuken (“to crease, rumple”), German Low German kröken (“to bend, offend, suppress”).

  1. To bend, or form into a hook.

    “He crooked his finger toward me.”

    “No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning.”

  2. To become bent or hooked.
  3. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

    “For the foundation of youthe well ſet (as Plato doth ſaye) the whole bodye of the common wealthe ſhall flouriſhe thereafter. If the younge tree growe croked, when it is oulde, a man ſhall rather breake it than ſtreight it. And I thincke there is no one thinge that crokes youthe more then ſuch unlawful games.”

    “The referring of all to a man's self, is more tolerable in a sovereign prince; because themselves are not only themselves, but their good and evil is at the peril of the public fortune. But it is a desperate evil, in a servant to a prince, or a citizen in a republic. For whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends; which must needs be often eccentric to the ends of his master, or state.”