kirked
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editkirked (not comparable)
Middle English
editEtymology
editProbably a Northern dialectal form of kroked (“crooked”), or perhaps a miswritten form.[1] More at English crooked.
Adjective
editkirked
- Turned upward, bent, crooked.
- c. 1370s. Unknown. The Romaunt of the Rose. 3135-8.
- Like sharp urchouns his here was growe,
His eyes rede as the fire-glow;
His nose frounced ful kirked stood,
He com criand as he were woor,- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1370s. Unknown. The Romaunt of the Rose. 3135-8.
Descendants
edit- English: kirked
References
edit- ^ Skeat, Walter (ed.), (1899). The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Vol 1 of 7. Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press. Page 434.