† crouchbackn.adj.

Forms: Also 1500s crutch-back, crudge bak, 1600s crouched-.

Etymology: < stem of crouch v.¹, associated perhaps with French croche crook: compare crook-back n., which is, at least in sense and use, a doublet of this.As a cognomen of Edmund, brother of Edward I, it was contended by some 17th cent. writers that Crouchback meant ‘crossed-back’, as in crouched friars ; but this is not compatible with the form crook-back n., which goes back to the 15th cent., and answers to the ‘Edmundus dorsum habuit fractum’, attributed to John of Gaunt in the Continuatio Eulogii (Rolls, 1863) III. 369. Cf. 1611 in J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (1632) vii. ii. 199; Yorke Union Hon. (1640) 22; F. Sandford Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. (1677) ii. vii. 103.

Obsolete (exc. historical).

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1. A crooked or hunched back.

a. One who has a crooked back, a hunchback.

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crooked-rig1382

crouchbackc1491

crook-back?1507

bunch-back1618

crump-backa1661

humpback1697

hunchback1718

huckle-back1762

cyphosis1847

bowbackedness1864

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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back > person

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crook-backa1513

urchin1528

lord1653

crump-backa1661

crump1698

hump1708

humpback1712

hunchback1712

crumple-back1845

bible-back1873

knarl-

c1491 in R. Davies York Records (1843) 221 That Kyng Richard was an ypocryte, a crochebake, & beried in a dike like a dogge.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xlii^v Sir Edmunde y^e kynges other sone surnamed Crowch Bak.

1519 G. Douglas King Hart ii. liv A crudge bak that cairfull cative bure.

1592 R. Johnson Nine Worthies sig. A3 Aesope, for all his crutchback, had a quick wit.

b. attributive or adj. Having a crooked back, hunchbacked.

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bow-backed1470

crook-backed1477

courbe-backed1480

bunch-backed1519

hunchbacked1598

buncht-back1603

crouch-backed1606

hulch1611

hulch-backed1611

hulched1611

crouchback1627

camel-backed1631

huck-backed1631

hulchy1632

boss-backed1640

gibbous1646

huckle-backeda1652

hulck-backed1656

hunched1656

crump-backeda1661

humpbacked1681

humped1713

humpback1726

humptya1825

hunchy1841

bible-backed1857

crooked-backed1866

cyphotic1889

1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xxx. §6 Robert Bossu, the Crouch-backe Earl of that Prouince.

1700 J. Brome Trav. i. 76 Crouch-back Robert, Earl [of Leicester]..raised a Rebellion against King Henry II.

Derivatives

† ˈcrouch-backed adj. Obsolete

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