Meaning

1 senses

  1. (East Midlands, Yorkshire, dialectal, obsolete)To bend; to make crooked.

Origin

Equivalent to crook (“to bend”) + -le (frequentative or diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch

Equivalent to crook (“to bend”) + -le (frequentative or diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch kreukelen, Low German krökeln.

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Forms

crookles, crookling, crookled, crookled
Base formcrookle · to crookle
3rd person singularcrookles
Present participlecrookling
Past simplecrookled
Past participlecrookled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrookle
he, she, itcrookles

Past simpleLesson

all personscrookled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave crookled
he, she, ithas crookled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crookle

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crookcrookedcropB1croquet
crookle — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto