crook

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

escroc

courbe

crosse

houlette

malfaiteur

bandit

courbure

courber

crochet

🪝

virage

hors-la-loi

recourber

criminel

arnaqueur

chenapan

délinquant

imposteur

souffrant

tricheuse

malfrat

escroqueur

accrocher

🪝

aigrefine

coude

creux

croc

🪝

filou

fripouille

gredin

hypocrite

malade

🤢

plier

racaille

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

scélérat

🦹‍♂️

tordre

aigrefin

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Gauner

krümmen

lestofante

Ganove

Betrüger

ellendeling

boef

ploert

Hirtenstab

Biegung

curva

truffatore

Krümmung

γκλίτσα

schavuit

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɹʊk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: croke

Hérité de ancien anglais: *crōc

Appartenant à néerlandais: kreuk

Appartenant à Middle Low German: kroke

Appartenant à danois: krog

Appartenant à suédois: krok

Appartenant à islandais: krókur

Hérité de moyen anglais: crooken

Hérité de ancien anglais: *crōcian

Appartenant à néerlandais: 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).

Phrases

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

Il se leva et, prenant son escroc, a commencé à éveiller les moutons qui dormaient encore.