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Crocked

adjective



Crock

verb
(past & past part. crocked; pres. part. crocking)
1.
Release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric.
2.
Soil with or as with crock.



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"Crocked" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the scrum-half who will be unable to assist his team this month on account of being severely crocked whilst helping his wife ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 • Various

... her. "Queen's Gate, and Sundays at the Metropole. They're shipping people, which is where the diamond ta-ra-ras come from. Oh yes, there's a husband, quite a nice fellow, crocked in the Flying Corps. No, I don't know who the chap is she's got with her. Some dusky brother. Not Cleve." He fell silent as Lawrence ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... indignantly, 'if he had lost his hair he might have drawn the line at falling on Tony like that. It wasn't the tackling part of it that crocked him. The beast simply jumped on him like a Hooligan. Anyhow, I made him sit up a bit before we finished. I gave Prescott the tip to mark him out of touch. Have you ever been collared by Prescott? It's a liberal education. Now, there you ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse

... said a R.F.A. man. "We limbered up, our battery did, and got the guns off in column of route, but we were more like a blooming ambulance than a battery. We had our limbers and waggons chock full o' details—fellers who'd been wounded or crocked up. And reservists wi' sore feet—out o' training, ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan



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