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corbe

/kɔː(ɹ)b/

corbe adjective: crooked.

Adjective

corbe (comparative more corbe, superlative most corbe)

  1. (obsolete) crooked
    • I deeme thy braine emperished bee
      Through rusty elde, that hath rotted thee:
      Or sicker thy head veray tottie is,
      So on thy corbe shoulder it leanes amisse.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC

Forms of corbe

comparativemore corbe
superlativemost corbe

Origin of corbe

From Old French corbe, from Latin curvus.

Words that rhyme with corbe

Questions about corbe

What does corbe mean?
Corbe means crooked.
What part of speech is corbe?
Corbe is an adjective.
How do you pronounce corbe?
Corbe is pronounced /kɔː(ɹ)b/.

Words near corbe in the dictionary

  1. corban
  2. corbanot
  3. corbanoth
  4. corbans
  5. Corbasca
  6. corbe
  7. Corbeanca
  8. corbeau
  9. corbeaux
  10. Corbehem
  11. corbeil

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