crook
adjective/krʊk/
/krʊk/
[not usually before noun] (Australian English, New Zealand English, informal)Idioms - ill
- I’m feeling a bit crook.
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- bad or unpleasant
- It can be hard to stay positive when times are crook.
- dishonest; illegal
- Everybody thinks horse racing is crook anyway.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th cent. The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked.
Idioms
go crook (at somebody)
- to fail to control your anger
- He would often get angry and go crook at people about minor things.
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