Noun: cripple
| Singular | cripple |
| Plural | cripples |
Sample Sentences
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He returned from war a cripple.
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I am […]a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. [1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
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Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple. [1906, Religious Telescope, volume 72, page 8:]
Nouns inflected like cripple
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill. See: Middle English Nouns '
cripel', Old English Nouns '
crypel', German Nouns '
Krüppel', Old Norse Nouns '
kryppill'.
Verbs referencing "cripple"
German Nouns
Krüppel.