crookle

English

Etymology

Equivalent to crook (“to bend”) +‎ -le (frequentative or diminutive suffix).[1] Compare Dutch kreukelen, Low German krökeln.

Verb

crookle (third-person singular simple present crookles, present participle crookling, simple past and past participle crookled)

  1. (obsolete, dialectal, East Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To bend; to make crooked.[2]

References
  1. “crookle, v.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1893.
  2. Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “CROOKLE, vb. and adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 807–808: “CROOKLE, v. and adj. Yks. Lan. Not. Lin. Rut. Lei. Nhp. [...] 1. v. To make crooked, to bend, twist. [...] n.Lin.1 As crookled as a dog's hind leg.”.
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