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Antonyms for crocked

Grammar : Adj
Spell : krokt
Phonetic Transcription : krÉ’kt

Definition of crocked

Origin :
  • Old English crocc, crocca "pot, vessel," from Proto-Germanic *krogu "pitcher, pot" (cf. Old Frisian krocha "pot," Old Saxon kruka, Middle Dutch cruke, Dutch kruik, Old High German kruog "pitcher," German Krug, Old Norse krukka "pot"). Perhaps from the same source as Middle Irish crocan "pot," Greek krossos "pitcher," Old Church Slavonic krugla "cup." Used as an image of worthless rubbish since 19c., perhaps from the use of crockery as chamberpots.
  • adj drunk
Example sentences :
  • Poor Balfour was awfully lonely after Chamberlain crocked up.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • His grandfather was crocked, his father too, and he's as bad.
  • Extract from : « The Longest Journey » by E. M. Forster
  • They jostled and crocked against one another, rolled over and stopped.
  • Extract from : « Local Color » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • Is this some of the vintage you crocked poor old Hinton with?
  • Extract from : « Kathleen » by Christopher Morley
  • Well, is it all rot, or did you—­you know what I mean—­sham a crocked wrist?
  • Extract from : « Mike » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The dog did not look at her, but crocked under him the leg that had been stiff like a ramrod and spread out another.
  • Extract from : « Jeremy » by Hugh Walpole
  • Yes, but he's crocked—stiff leg—so he hunts on wheels—follows in a dog-cart.
  • Extract from : « Mrs. Thompson » by William Babington Maxwell
  • The dusk of evening had fallen and crocked the white marble and blurred the lettered legends around us.
  • Extract from : « The Light in the Clearing » by Irving Bacheller
  • Personally, I cant do much, because mother has crocked up and Ive got to run the Deanery.
  • Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke
  • We had our limbers and waggons chock full o' details—fellers who'd been wounded or crocked up.
  • Extract from : « Leaves from a Field Note-Book » by J. H. Morgan

Synonyms for crocked

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