crook

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crook englannista suomeksi

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{{quote-text|en|year=1842|author=William Edward Hoskins|title=De Valencourt
A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set)
A lock or curl of hair.
A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
1970, ''The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition'', published 1976, Oxford University Press, ''Psalms'' 23-4, p.583:

Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.

A bishop's standard staff of office.
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1547|author=Thomas Cranmer|title=Against Transubstantiation
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
1973 November 17, (w), reported 1973 November 18, ''The Washington Post'', http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/111873-1.htm ''Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’'',

"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I′m not a crook. I′ve earned everything I′ve got."

A pothook.
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
To bend, or form into a hook.
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
{{quote-text|en|year=1784|editor=W. H. Stevenson|author=William Blake; Songs from|chapter=An Island in the Moon|title=Blake: The Complete Poems|edition=3rd|page=50|publisher=Routledge|year_published=2007
{{quote-text|en|year=1917|author=Leo Tolstoy|translator=Constance Garnett|title=s:Anna Karenina|section=Part 4, Chapter 5
To become bent or hooked.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
(RQ:Ascham Works)'' doth ſaye) the whole bodye of the common wealthe ſhall flouriſhe thereafter. If the younge tree growe croked, when it is oulde, a man ſhall rather breake it than ſtreight it. And I thincke there is no one thinge that crokes youthe more then ſuch unlawful games.
{{quote-text|en|year=1597|author=Francis Bacon|chapter=Of Wisdom For a Man's Self,|title=(Francis Bacon)|The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/575/575-h/575-h.htm
Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.

''That work you did on my car is crook, mate.''

''Not turning up for training was pretty crook.''

{{quote-book|en|year=1981|author=Herman Charles Bosman|title=The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hNZHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22onkus%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22onkus%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_YPHT9qHGM2biQfRicC3Dg&redir_esc=y|page=101
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Ill, sick.

''I′m feeling a bit crook.''

''be crook at/about''; ''go crook at''

{{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=Jimmy Butt; Felicity Dargan|title=I've Been Bloody Lucky: The Story of an Orphan Named Jimmy Butt|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hpLU50pmCs0C&pg=PA17&dq=%22go%7Cgone%7Cwent+crook+at%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0oUzT8KBE4X5mAX58pWJAg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22go%7Cgone%7Cwent%20crook%20at%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=17
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Jo Wainer|title=Bess: Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ln97vrDVN58C&pg=PA159&dq=%22go%7Cgone%7Cwent+crook+at%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0oUzT8KBE4X5mAX58pWJAg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22go%7Cgone%7Cwent%20crook%20at%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=159
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