crooking
crooking is the present participle and gerund of crook.
Meaning of crook
Verb
crook (third-person singular simple present crooks, present participle crooking, simple past and past participle crooked)
- To bend, or form into a hook.
- He crooked his finger toward me.
- To become bent or hooked.
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- For the foundation of youthe well ſet (as Plato doth ſaye) the whole bodye of the common wealthe ſhall flouriſhe thereafter. If the younge tree growe croked, when it is oulde, a man ſhall rather breake it than ſtreight it. And I thincke there is no one thinge that crokes youthe more then ſuch...1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […]...
Noun
crooking (plural crookings)
- The act by which something is crooked.
- […] her rushes to the front door, and long hugs when he came back from a travel; all those later crookings of her little finger in his […]1915, John Galsworthy, The Freelands
Forms of crooking
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Phrases with crooking
Questions about crooking
- What does crooking mean?
- Crooking means the act by which something is crooked.
- What is crooking the present participle and gerund of?
- Crooking is the present participle and gerund of crook.
- What part of speech is crooking?
- Crooking is a noun.
- What is the plural of crooking?
- The plural of crooking is crookings.
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