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Word: Crook
Speech Type: Noun
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
the hooked staff of a shepherd
Short Definition:shepherd's crooked staff
Examples:- seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs
a person who is dishonest or a criminal
Short Definition:criminal
Examples:- the man's a crook, he's not to be trusted
Word: Crook
Speech Type: Verb
krʊk
bend (something, especially a finger as a signal)
Short Definition:bend something
Examples:- he crooked a finger for the waitress
Word: Crook
Speech Type: Adjective
krʊk
bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory
Short Definition:bad
Examples:- it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s
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