acrook
adv/əˈkɹʊk/
Etymology
Definitions
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?
- […] our spirits immersed / In wilfulness, our steps run all acrook.
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."
- His knees were acrook and his feet lifted on their toes as if they were ready for flight.
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 […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for acrook. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA