crookle
English
Etymology
Equivalent to crook (“to bend”) + -le (frequentative or diminutive suffix).[1] Compare Dutch kreukelen, Low German krökeln.
Verb
crookle (third-person singular simple present crookles, present participle crookling, simple past and past participle crookled)
- (obsolete, dialectal, East Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To bend; to make crooked.[2]
References
- “crookle, v.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1893. - “CROOKLE, vb. and adj.” in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1898, →OCLC, pages 807–808: “CROOKLE, v. and adj. Yks. Lan. Not. Lin. Rut. Lei. Nhp. [...] 1. v. To make crooked, to bend, twist. [...] n.Lin.1 As crookled as a dog's hind leg.”.