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crooks
We have found lemma(root) word of crooks : crook.
Definitions
[krʊk], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the hooked staff of a shepherd
(e.g: seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs)
- a person who is dishonest or a criminal
(e.g: the man's a crook, he's not to be trusted)
Phrases:
- be crook on
- go crook
Origin
:
Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked
[krʊk], (Verb)
Definitions:
- bend (something, especially a finger as a signal)
(e.g: he crooked a finger for the waitress)
Phrases:
- be crook on
- go crook
Origin
:
Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked
[krʊk], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory
(e.g: it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s)
Phrases:
- be crook on
- go crook
Origin
:
Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked
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