crook

Significado (Inglés)

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. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
5. (obsolete) 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. A bishop's standard staff of office.
8. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
9. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
10. A pothook.
11. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

Verb

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

Adj

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
3. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.

Conceptos

curva

estafador

cayado

arquear

vuelta

timador

báculo

transgresor

bandido

granuja

encorvarse

bribón

truhán

recodo

ladrona

malvado

ratero

sinvergüenza

torcedura

torcer

agacharse

bergante

chalecón

curvatura

galopín

giro

malhechor

ratera

revuelta

tramposo

tunant

curvidad

enchuecar

timadora

antro

truhana

anzuelo

🪝

bache

cavidad

criminal

curvar

delincuente

doblar

doblez

ficha

gancho

🪝

hoyo

🕳️

hueco

ladrón

Sinónimos

bend

curve

rogue

swindler

cheat

criminal

turn

scoundrel

twist

malefactor

felon

villain

🦹‍♂️

trickster

hook

🪝

crosier

thief

deceiver

rascal

knave

staff

rook

crozier

outlaw

corner

imposter

shepherd’s crook

fraud

con man

wind

con artist

cheater

bad guy

twister

delinquent

cane

slicker

stick

culprit

renegade

meander

offender

liar

bow

🙇

scroll

📜

jockey

flexure

flex

faker

hoodwinker

lawbreaker

Traducciones

escroc

Gauner

krümmen

lestofante

Ganove

courbe

Betrüger

Krümmung

curva

truffatore

Hirtenstab

Biegung

crosse

γκλίτσα

boef

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kɹʊk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: croke

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *crōc

Cognado con neerlandés: kreuk

Cognado con Middle Low German: kroke

Cognado con danés: krog

Cognado con sueco: krok

Cognado con islandés: krókur

Heredado de inglés medio: crooken

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *crōcian

Cognado con neerlandés: kreuken

In summary

From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *crōc (“hook, bend, crook”), from Proto-West Germanic *krōk, from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“bend, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, bend”).
Cognate with Dutch kreuk (“a bend, fold, wrinkle”), Middle Low German kroke, krake (“fold, wrinkle”), Danish krog (“crook, hook”), Swedish krok (“crook, hook”), Icelandic krókur (“hook”).
Compare typologically Czech křivák (< křivý < Proto-Slavic *krivъ, whence also *krivьda).

Oraciones

He arose and , taking up his crook , began to awaken the sheep that still slept .

Se levantó y, tomando su ladrón, comenzó a despertar a las ovejas que aún dormían.