crook

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
 * 2) A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
 * 3) A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
 * 4)  A lock or curl of hair.
 * 5)  A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
 * 6) A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
 * 7) * 1970, The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition, published 1976, Oxford University Press, Psalms 23-4, p.583:
 * Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.
 * 1) A bishop's standard staff of office.
 * 2) An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
 * 3) A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
 * 4) * 1973 November 17,, reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post, Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’,
 * "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I′m not a crook. I′ve earned everything I′ve got."
 * 1) A pothook.
 * 2)  A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
 * 1) A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
 * 2) * 1973 November 17,, reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post, Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’,
 * "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I′m not a crook. I′ve earned everything I′ve got."
 * 1) A pothook.
 * 2)  A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:criminal

Translations

 * Azerbaijani:, aferist, julik, aferist, julik
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, , podrazák
 * Dutch:, , , , , , ,
 * Esperanto: fikomercisto,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:, þorpari
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: bithiúnach
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: кра́дец
 * Norwegian Bokmål: skurk
 * Plautdietsch: Vebräakja
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ло́пов
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: lopov
 * Spanish:, , , , , ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: pastýřská hůl
 * Dutch: herdersstaf
 * Finnish: käyräsauva
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, კაუჭი
 * German:, , , Krummstab
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καλαῦροψ, χαῖος
 * Icelandic: hirðingjastafur
 * Irish: crúca, bachall, caimín, camóg
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin:, agolum
 * Macedonian: кр́лук, кри́вак, ге́га
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bachall
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: herdestav


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ohbí,, záhyb
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Macedonian: кри́вина
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , curvidad, torcedura

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from , from the noun (see above). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To bend, or form into a hook.
 * 2)  To become bent or hooked.
 * 3) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
 * 1)  To become bent or hooked.
 * 2) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
 * 1)  To become bent or hooked.
 * 2) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Macedonian: и́скриви, кри́ви
 * Middle English: croken
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , ,

Etymology 3
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
 * That work you did on my car is crook, mate.
 * Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
 * 1)  Ill, sick.
 * I′m feeling a bit crook.
 * 1)  Annoyed, angry; upset.
 * be crook at/about; go crook at
 * 1)  Annoyed, angry; upset.
 * be crook at/about; go crook at