Noun: crook
| Singular | crook |
| Plural | crooks |
Sample Sentences
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She held the baby in the crook of her arm.
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he walks bye lanes, and crooks [1842, William Edward Hoskins, De Valencourt:]
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the crook of a cane
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It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side. [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:]
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In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate. [1958 February 26, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:]
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1973 November 17, Richard Nixon, reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post, Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’,
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"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I′m not a crook. I′ve earned everything I′ve got."
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Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort. [1970, The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition, published 1976, Oxford University Press, Psalms 23-4, p.583]
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for all your brags, hooks, and crooks [c. 1547, Thomas Cranmer, Against Transubstantiation:]
Nouns inflected like crook
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
1. From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *crōc (“hook, bend, crook”), from Proto-West Germanic *krōk, from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“bend, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, bend”).
2. Cognate with Dutch kreuk (“a bend, fold, wrinkle”), Middle Low German kroke, krake (“fold, wrinkle”), Danish krog (“crook, hook”), Swedish krok (“crook, hook”), Icelandic krókur (“hook”).
3. Compare typologically Czech křivák (< křivý < Proto-Slavic *krivъ, whence also *krivьda). See: Middle English Nouns '
croke', Old English Nouns '
*crōc', Dutch Nouns '
kreuk', Danish Nouns '
krog', Swedish Nouns '
krok', Icelandic Nouns '
krókur'.