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acrook
/əˈkɹʊk/
adj 2adv 1
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4ADJ.
all, watched
VERB + ACROOK
arm, gear, run, steps
ACROOK + NOUN
a-thinkin, feet, sparrows, thet
PREP.
with
Definitions
adv
1
In an oblique or crooked direction.
C. Custance. Wife, why cal ye me wife? Sim Sure. Wife? this gear goth acrook.
Loe, is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke That on this azure ground glydes (as it were) acrooke?
adj
1
Bent or formed into a hook.
1905, Eudorus C. Kenney, “Jack and the Sparrows” in Some More Thusettes, Cortland, NY: The Democrat Printery, p. 7, So Jack of salt a handful took / And slyly watched with neck acrook The sparrows.
"Arm acrook, too, a-thinkin’ thet in ther dark all cats is grey."
2
Not in its proper place or properly oriented.
The whole evening […] lay empty ahead of us. What bliss! There was not a pin acrook in the house, the washing up would be done […]
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C. Custance. Wife, why cal ye me wife? Sim Sure. Wife? this gear goth acrook.
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Loe, is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke That on this azure ground glydes (as it were) acrooke?
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[…] our spirits immersed / In wilfulness, our steps run all acrook.
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1905, Eudorus C. Kenney, “Jack and the Sparrows” in Some More Thusettes, Cortland, NY: The Democrat Printery, p. 7, So Jack of salt a handful took / And slyly watched with neck acrook The sparrows.
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"Arm acrook, too, a-thinkin’ thet in ther dark all cats is grey."
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His knees were acrook and his feet lifted on their toes as if they were ready for flight.
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