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† ˈcrouchback, n. and a. Obs. (exc. Hist.)
Also 6 crutch-back, crudge bak, 7 crouched-.
[f. stem of crouch v., associated perhaps with F. croche crook: cf. crook-back, which is, at least in sense and use, a doublet of this.]
1. A crooked or hunched back.
2. One who has a crooked back, a hunchback.
b. attrib. or adj. Having a crooked back, hunchbacked.
c1491in R. Davies York Records (1843) 221 That Kyng Richard was an ypocryte, a crochebake, & beried in a dike like a dogge. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 366 Sir Edmunde y⊇ kynges other sone, surnamed Crowch Bak. 1519Douglas King Hart ii. liv, A crudge bak that cairfull cative bure. 1592R. Johnson Nine Worthies A iij, Aesope, for all his crutchback, had a quick wit. 1627Speed England xxx. §6 Robert Bossu, the Crouch-backe Earl of that Prouince. 1700J. Brome Trav. Eng. ii. (1707) 66 Crouch⁓back Robert, Earl [of Leicester]..raised a Rebellion against King Henry II.
(As a cognomen of Edmund, brother of Edward I, it was contended by some 17th c. writers that Crouchback meant ‘crossed-back’, as in crouched friars; but this is not compatible with the form crook-back, which goes back to the 15th c., and answers to the ‘Edmundus dorsum habuit fractum’, attributed to John of Gaunt in the Continuatio Eulogii (Rolls, 1863) III. 369. Cf.1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. ii. (1632) 199. 1640 Yorke Union Hon. 22. 1677 F. Sandford Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. 103.)
Hence † ˈcrouch-backed a.
1606Holland Sueton. 211 A man very low of stature and withall crowchbacked. 1630M. Godwyn tr. Bp. Hereford's Ann. Eng. (1675) 148 Crouch-backed Mary [married] to Martin Kayes, groom Porter. c1707in Maidment Sc. Pasquils (1868) 375 The crouch backed Count. |