crool

• enPR: kro͞ol, IPA^(key): /kɹuːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

Imitative.

crool (third-person singular simple present crools, present participle crooling, simple past and past participle crooled)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.
   • 1873, Thomas Cooper, The Paradise of Martyrs:

     I […] lay down to rest / Upon a grassy hillock, o'er which bowed / A bush in which some late bird kept her nest. / And, as she crooled, I slept.

Orthographic variant, meant to indicate uneducated spelling of monosyllabic pronunciation, of cruel.

crool (comparative crooler, superlative croolest)

1. Alternative spelling of cruel
   • 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:

     The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.

   • 1934 May 8, The Sun, page 6, column 3:

     "That's about the croolest, outrageousest job you've found for me yet," said Willie, indignantly.

crool (third-person singular simple present crools, present participle crooling, simple past and past participle crooled)

1. Alternative spelling of cruel
   • 1919 August 17, The Truth, page 1, column 8:

     And for them me health I have "crooled."

• color, corol