Crook



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 使弯曲
• ［英］ v. 使弯曲 ( to bend or curve)
• ［记］ 注意不要和creek ( 小河) 相混

Webster Collegiate

kI. verb

• Date: 12th century
• transitive verb
  • bend
• intransitive verb
  • curve, wind

II. noun

• Etymology: Middle English crok, from Old Norse krōkr hook
• Date: 13th century
• 1. an implement having a bent or hooked form: as
  • a. pothook
  • b.
    • (1) a shepherd's staff
    • (2) crosier 1
• 2. a part of something that is hook-shaped, curved, or bent <the crook of an umbrella handle
• 3. bend, curve
• 4. a person who engages in fraudulent or criminal practices

III. adjective

• Etymology: probably short for crooked
• Date: 1898
• Australian & New Zealand not right:
  • a. unsatisfactory
  • b. dishonest, crooked
  • c. irritable, angry — used especially in the phrase go crook
  • d. ill, unwell

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