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crooked, a.|ˈkrʊkɪd|
Forms: 3–6 croked, 4–6 -id, -yd, (4 kr-), 5 cruked, (crowkyt), 6 Sc. crukit, 7 (Shaks.) crook'd, 4– crooked.
[Partly pa. pple. of crook v., partly f. crook n. + -ed, as in hunched, etc.: the formation from the n. may even have been the earlier.]
1. a. Bent from the straight form; having (one or more) bends or angles; curved, bent, twisted, tortuous, wry. Applied to everything which is not ‘straight’ (of which crooked is now the ordinary opposite).
a1225Ancr. R. (MS. Cleop.) Þe cat of helle..wið crokede crokes. 1382Wyclif Isa. xxvii. 1 Leuyathan a crookid wounde serpent. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 29 Shal neuere..on croked kene þorne kynde fygys wexe. a1450Knt. de la Tour 23 Al her lyff after she hadd her nose al croked. c1460Medulla Gram. (in Promp. Parv. 80), Cambuca, a buschoppys cros or a crokid staf. 1534Tindale Luke iii. 5 Crocked thinges shalbe made streight. 1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i, All other lines, that go not right forth..but boweth any waye..are called Croked lynes. 1591Lyly Sappho ii. i, Juniper, the longer it grew, the crookeder it wexed. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 62 If the drinke..touch my Palat aduersly, I make a crooked face at it. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xvi. 111 Shipwrights and boat makers will choose those crooked pieces of timber. 1717Berkeley Tour in Italy §27 Streets open..but crooked. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxiii, That falchion's crooked blade.
b. crooked stick: see stick n.1 12.
2. a. Of persons: Having the body or limbs bent out of shape; deformed; bent or bowed with age. Hence transf. as an epithet of age.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 34/18 He..maude hole..Meseles and þe crokede. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 186 Ac calleth þe careful þer-to þe croked and þe pore. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. xxx, In my croked age. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxiii. 68 The crokyd dwarfe. 1628Milton Vac. Exerc. 69 A Sybil old, bow-bent with crooked age. 1718Freethinker No. 92. 258 You would have thought she had been crooked from her Infancy. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. xv, A pert crooked little chit.
†b. of an old decrepit horse. Obs.
1470–85Malory Arthur x. lxxxiv, Whan that knyghte sawe sire palomydes bounden vpon a croked courser. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Q, There is not so croked a hors.
3. fig.
a. The reverse of ‘straight’ in figurative senses (esp. with reference to moral character and conduct); deviating from rectitude or uprightness; not straightforward; dishonest, wrong, perverse; perverted, out of order, awry.
a1225Ancr. R. 102 Þe cat of helle..mid clokes of crokede & of kene uondunges. a1340Hampole Psalter xxxi. 14 Krokid of hert ere þa. 1508Fisher Wks. (1876) I. 240 The wyll of some is so croked. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iv. i. 22 If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. 1611Bible Deut. xxxii. 5 They are a peruerse and crooked generation. 1660H. More Myst. Godliness v. xvii. 204 A very crooked Objection both from the Jew and Atheist. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 411 Of crooked counsels and dark politicks. 1749Fielding Tom Jones vii. xv, This young gentleman, though somewhat crooked in his morals, was perfectly straight in his person. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 245 Perfect in the practice of crooked ways.
b. colloq. Dishonestly come by; made, obtained, or sold in a way that is not straightforward.
1864Hotten Slang. Dict. (ed. 3) 112 Crooked, a term used among dog-stealers, and the ‘fancy’ generally, to denote anything stolen. 1876N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 301 Another house testified..that half its entire annual product was ‘crooked’. 1891Farmer Dict. Amer., Crooked whiskey, illicitly distilled whiskey upon which no excise has been paid. 1892R. Boldrewood Nevermore I. x. 180 He was riding a crooked horse when he was took. 1898Daily News 27 Aug. 6/6 Telling him that he rather thought he had bought ‘a crooked lot’. 1902Daily Chron. 26 Aug. 6/6 In the event of his being found..to be dealing in ‘crooked’ things, or refusing to give information as to where he got his stuff.
c. Austral. and N.Z. slang. = crook a. 2 c; esp. in phr. crooked on, angry at. Usu. pronounced |krʊkt|.
1944L. Glassop We were Rats i. viii. 48 Ya oughtn' ter feel crooked on things. I s'pose it's because Bertha's outa town? 1957‘N. Culotta’ They're a Weird Mob (1958) vi. 86 ‘Are you not ashamed of yourself?’ ‘Yeah, I'm real crooked on me.’
4. quasi-adv. In a crooked course or position; not straight.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (R.), If the younge tree growe croked. 1549Compl. Scot. xix. 159 Sche ȝeid crukit, bakuart, and on syd. 1864Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 220 Pictures..which were hung up all crooked.
5. Comb., as crooked-bill, a name for the avocet; † crooked-rig (rig = back), crook-back;
b. parasynthetic, as crooked-backed, crooked-clawed, crooked-eyed, crooked-houghed, crooked-legged, crooked-lined, crooked-lipped, crooked-neck(ed) (spec. applied to a variety of squash: cf. crook-neck; U.S.), crooked-pated, crooked-shouldered, etc. adjs.
1382Wyclif Lev. xxi. 20 If crokid rigge or bleer eyed. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxi. 63 He is..crokyd shulderyd. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 86 A crooked-pated olde..Ramme. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2691/4 A dark brown-bay Mare..crooked Legg'd behind. 1705W. Bosman Guinea 264 Crooked-bills and several sorts of Snipes. 1784Massachusetts Spy 22 Apr. 1/1 Crooked neck squash. 1796–1801Fessenden Orig. Poems (1806) 134 Like a nice crook'd neck'd squash on the ground. 1853Hickie tr. Aristoph. (1887) I. 321 These here crooked-clawed birds. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xiii. 142 Small and crooked-backed. 1871C. D. Warner Summer in Garden viii. 104 The summer squash..was nearly all leaf and blow, with only a sickly crooked-necked fruit after a mighty fuss. |