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crookle

crookle verb: to bend; to make crooked.

Verb

crookle (third-person singular simple present crookles, present participle crookling, simple past and past participle crookled)

  1. (East-Midlands, Yorkshire, dialectal, obsolete, Lancashire) To bend; to make crooked.

Forms of crookle

third-person singular presentcrookles
present participlecrookling
past participlecrookled
pastcrookled

Origin of crookle

Equivalent to crook (“to bend”) + -le (frequentative or diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch kreukelen, Low German krökeln.

Questions about crookle

What does crookle mean?
Crookle means to bend; to make crooked.
What part of speech is crookle?
Crookle is a verb.
What is the past tense of crookle?
The past tense of crookle is crookled.

Words near crookle in the dictionary

  1. crookies
  2. crooking
  3. crooking one's elbow
  4. crookings
  5. crookish
  6. crookle
  7. crooklegged
  8. crookless
  9. crookneck
  10. crooknecked
  11. crooknecks

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