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单词 crinks and cranks
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crinks and cranks
4. regional. crinks and cranks: twisting or contorting of the body, induced by pain; (by metonymy) aches and pains. Now rare.
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1865 A. C. Ritchie Fairy Fingers xlviii. 395 What crinks and cranks he's got. Sick folk always have crumpled ways.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases at Cranks A person is said to be full of ‘crinks and cranks’ when generally complaining of ill health.
1920 W. C. Mitchell in L. S. Mitchell Two Lives (1953) iv. xviii. 312 Despite the strain of the three-day trip, they had no crink cranks, and this morning they seem as fresh as the violets in the grass—with just one mosquito bite showing on Jack's face.]
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