crook

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
    — She held the baby in the crook of her arm.
  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
  4. A lock or curl of hair. obsolete
  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. obsolete
  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.
  10. A pothook.
  11. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
动词 v.
  1. To bend, or form into a hook. transitive
    — He crooked his finger toward me.
  2. To become bent or hooked. intransitive
  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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard. Australia,New-Zealand,slang
    — That work you did on my car is crook, mate.
  2. Ill, sick. Australia,New-Zealand,slang
    — I′m feeling a bit crook.
  3. Annoyed, angry; upset. Australia,New-Zealand,slang
    — be crook at/about; go crook at

词形变化

crooks plural crooks present,singular,third-person crooking participle,present crooked participle,past crooked past crooker comparative crookest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
crook and nanny

词源

词源 1
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).
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
From crooked (“dishonestly come by”).
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