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crooks

We have found lemma(root) word of crooks : crook.

Definitions


[krʊk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the hooked staff of a shepherd
(e.g: seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs)

- a person who is dishonest or a criminal
(e.g: the man's a crook, he's not to be trusted)


Phrases:
- be crook on
- go crook

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked


[krʊk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- bend (something, especially a finger as a signal)
(e.g: he crooked a finger for the waitress)


Phrases:
- be crook on
- go crook

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked


[krʊk], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory
(e.g: it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s)


Phrases:
- be crook on
- go crook

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked




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