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Etymology

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cripple +‎ -y

Adjective

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cripply (comparative more cripply, superlative most cripply)

  1. lame; disabled; crippled
    • 1840, Frances Milton Trollope, The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy:
      When my mistress brought back the news of the little fellow's death, his poor mother, who was but a sickly, cripply sort of body, just broke her heart and died []