Definition of crookback in English:

crookback

nounˈkrʊkbakˈkrʊkbæk

archaic

A person with a hunchback.
〈古〉驼背的人
Example sentencesExamples
- I am the only crookback of my party; we are else passably well shapen.
- Ian McKellen's characterization has as much of Oswald Mosley in it as of Shakespeare's ‘crookback’ King, and the film is shot through with heavy irony.

Derivatives

crookbacked

adjectiveˈkrʊkbaktˈkrʊkbækt

archaic

He was an ancient, harmless, crookbacked little man whose sunken chest barely managed to support two corroded medals, earned for heaven knows what acts of bravery during the first half of the previous century.
Example sentencesExamples
- But it so happened that the small crookbacked old man once again came wandering with his sack on the back.
- We learn from these reports that Knupp had some physical deficiencies, for example that one of his legs was shorter than the other, that he was crookbacked, sweated easily and had bad teeth.
- They were attended by a crookbacked corduroy-clad waiter, almost toothless, with vigorous tufts of snowy hair sprouting from his nose & ear holes.
- The lintel twists with numerals, the four walls buckling with crookbacked joists until ghosts hang homeless in the lurching levels.

Definition of crookback in US English:

crookback

nounˈkro͝okbakˈkrʊkbæk

archaic

A person with a hunchback.
〈古〉驼背的人
Example sentencesExamples
- Ian McKellen's characterization has as much of Oswald Mosley in it as of Shakespeare's ‘crookback’ King, and the film is shot through with heavy irony.
- I am the only crookback of my party; we are else passably well shapen.

词汇	crookback
释义	Definition of crookback in English: crookback nounˈkrʊkbakˈkrʊkbæk archaic A person with a hunchback. 〈古〉驼背的人 Example sentencesExamples I am the only crookback of my party; we are else passably well shapen. Ian McKellen's characterization has as much of Oswald Mosley in it as of Shakespeare's ‘crookback’ King, and the film is shot through with heavy irony. Derivatives crookbacked adjectiveˈkrʊkbaktˈkrʊkbækt archaic He was an ancient, harmless, crookbacked little man whose sunken chest barely managed to support two corroded medals, earned for heaven knows what acts of bravery during the first half of the previous century. Example sentencesExamples But it so happened that the small crookbacked old man once again came wandering with his sack on the back. We learn from these reports that Knupp had some physical deficiencies, for example that one of his legs was shorter than the other, that he was crookbacked, sweated easily and had bad teeth. They were attended by a crookbacked corduroy-clad waiter, almost toothless, with vigorous tufts of snowy hair sprouting from his nose & ear holes. The lintel twists with numerals, the four walls buckling with crookbacked joists until ghosts hang homeless in the lurching levels. Definition of crookback in US English: crookback nounˈkro͝okbakˈkrʊkbæk archaic A person with a hunchback. 〈古〉驼背的人 Example sentencesExamples Ian McKellen's characterization has as much of Oswald Mosley in it as of Shakespeare's ‘crookback’ King, and the film is shot through with heavy irony. I am the only crookback of my party; we are else passably well shapen.
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