cruckle

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To stumble after inverting or everting one's foot; to roll (but not necessarily sprain) one's ankle. dialectal,intransitive
    — The resident, who does not want to be named, was walking along the street on Sunday (1 November) morning when she suddenly cruckled over on her ankle and fell on her hands, resulting in cuts and bruises.

词形变化

cruckles present,singular,third-person cruckling participle,present cruckled participle,past cruckled past

词源

From earlier crookle (“to bend, twist, make crooked”), equivalent to crook (“to bend”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch kreukelen, Low German krökeln.
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