单词 | crook-back |
释义 | crook-back|ˈkrʊkbæk| [See crook a.] †1. A crooked back. Obs.
1508[see crook a.]. 1709Swift Merlin's Proph., Bosse, is an old english word for hump-shoulder, or crook-back. 1710Palmer Proverbs 98 The deformity of a squint eye, red hair, or a crook-back. 2. One who has a crooked back; a hunchback.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 330 Edmunde, that is of wryters surnamed Crowke backe..was put by..for his deformytye. 1577St. Aug. Manual 51 Any lame man, any crooke backe. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. ii. 96, I Crooke-back, here I stand to answer thee. 1648Gage West. Ind. xii. (1655) 45 Dwarfes, crook-backs or any monstrous persons. |

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