crooked

English

A crooked building.

Etymology 1

From crook, equivalent to crook +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kro͝okt, IPA^(key): /kɹʊkt/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ʊkt

Verb

crooked

1. simple past and past participle of crook

Etymology 2

From Middle English croked, crokid, past participle of croken (“to crook, bend”). Cognate with Danish kroget (“crooked”). More at crook.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kro͝ok'ĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈkɹʊkɪd/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

  pronunciation refers to adjective form.
• Rhymes: -ʊkɪd

Adjective

crooked (comparative more crooked, superlative most crooked)

1. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.

   We walked up the crooked path to the top of the hill.

2. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.

   That picture is crooked - could you straighten it up for me?

3. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.

   He was trying to interest me in another one of his crooked deals.

   • 2004, Peter Bondanella, chapter 4, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, pages 173–174:

     During the height of Italian immigration in the United States and in New York City, gangs flourished not only because of poverty but also because of political and social corruption. Policemen and politicians were often as crooked as the gang leaders themselves.

Derived terms

• crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
• crooked as a barrel of snakes
• crooked as a dog's hind leg
• Crooked Creek
• hell west and crooked

 

Translations

having one or more bends or angles

• Albanian: shtremb (sq), shtrembër (sq), përkulur (sq), gërmuq (sq), kërth
• Aromanian: strãmbu
• Assamese: বেঁকা (bẽka)
• Azerbaijani: əyri (az)
• Bashkir: кәкре (kəkre)
• Belarusian: крывы́ (kryvý)
• Bulgarian: крив (bg) (kriv), извит (bg) (izvit)
• Catalan: tort (ca), tortuós
• Chechen: гома (goma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 彎曲／弯曲 (zh) (wānqū), 歪 (zh) (wāi)

• Czech: zkroucený m, křivý (cs) m, zdeformovaný m
• Dutch: krom (nl), scheef (nl), gebogen (nl)
• Finnish: käyrä (fi), mutkainen (fi), kiero (fi), väärä (fi), köyry
• French: courbé (fr), tortueux (fr)
• Friulian: stuart
• German: krumm (de), schief (de), bogenförmig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀγκύλος (ankúlos), καμψός (kampsós), καμπύλος (kampúlos), σκαμβός (skambós)

• Hebrew: עקום (he) (akúm)
• Hungarian: görbe (hu)
• Indonesian: bengkok (id)
• Ingush: гоама (goama)
• Irish: cam
• Italian: storto (it), curvo (it), contorto (it) m, ritorto (it) m, tortuoso (it) m
• Japanese: 曲がった (ja) (まがった, magatta)
• Javanese: bengkong (jv)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چەوت (çewt)

• Latin: camur, prāvus, tortus
• Malay:

  Jawi: لوق

  Rumi: lok

• Nanai: мокчо (mokčo)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: krokete

• Occitan: corbut
• Old English: ġēap
• Ossetian: къӕдз (k’æʒ)
• Persian: کج (fa)
• Plautdietsch: kromm
• Polish: krzywy (pl)
• Portuguese: torto (pt)
• Romanian: strâmb (ro)
• Russian: криво́й (ru) (krivój), изо́гнутый (ru) (izógnutyj), скрю́ченный (ru) (skrjúčennyj), искривлённый (iskrivljónnyj)
• Sanskrit: भुग्न (sa) (bhugna)
• Scottish Gaelic: crom, lùbach
• Serbo-Croatian: kriv (sh)
• Slovak: krivý
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kśiwy

• Spanish: torcido (es)
• Sundanese: anggaresol
• Swahili: kombo
• Swedish: krökt (sv), krokig (sv), krum (sv)
• Tausug: bingkuk
• Thai: คด (th) (kót)
• Turkish: eğri (tr)
• Ukrainian: криви́й (kryvýj)

set at an angle

• Bulgarian: изкривен (bg) (izkriven)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 歪 (me²)

• Finnish: vino (fi), kiero (fi)
• French: tordu (fr)
• German: schräg (de), schief (de)
• Hebrew: נטוי (natúi)
• Italian: torto (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خوار (xwar)

• Persian: کج (fa) (kaj)
• Polish: krzywy (pl) m
• Portuguese: torto (pt) m
• Russian: искривлённый (iskrivljónnyj)
• Spanish: torcido (es), inclinado (es), chueco (es) (Latin America)
• Swahili: kombo
• Swedish: sned (sv), skev (sv)
• Ukrainian: ви́кривлений (výkryvlenyj)

figurative: dishonest, illegal

• Bulgarian: нече́стен (bg) (nečésten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 歪 (zh) (wāi), 不正當／不正当 (zh) (bù zhèngdàng)

• Czech: pokřivený m, zdeformovaný, nečestný m
• Dutch: corrupt (nl)
• Finnish: kiero (fi), kelju (fi)
• French: tordu (fr)
• German: betrügerisch (de), unehrlich (de), krumm (de), link (de)
• Hebrew: עקש (he) (ikésh)
• Italian: contorto (it) m
• Japanese: 不正 (ja) (ふせい, fusei)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چەوت (çewt), چەوتوچێڵ (çewtuçêll)

• Portuguese: desonesto (pt)
• Russian: нече́стный (ru) (nečéstnyj)
• Spanish: torcido (es)
• Swedish: ohederlig (sv), skurkaktig (sv)
• Thai: คด (th) (kót)
• Ukrainian: протизако́нний (protyzakónnyj), незако́нний (nezakónnyj), шахра́йський (šaxrájsʹkyj)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} bacánach
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} teurt (Jersey)

Anagrams

• red-cook