crookle
English edit
Etymology edit
Equivalent to crook (“to bend”) + -le (frequentative or diminutive suffix).[1] Compare Dutch kreukelen, Low German krökeln.
Verb edit
crookle (third-person singular simple present crookles, present participle crookling, simple past and past participle crookled)
- (obsolete, dialectal, East Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To bend; to make crooked.[2]
References edit
- ^ “crookle, v.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1893.
- ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “CROOKLE, vb. and adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 807–808.: “CROOKLE, v. and adj. Yks. Lan. Not. Lin. Rut. Lei. Nhp. [...] 1. v. To make crooked, to bend, twist. [...] n.Lin.1 As crookled as a dog's hind leg.”
