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Meanings of crookback in English
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.
Related terms
Usage of crookback in English
1
I know he dislikes those with deformities, for all his fool Will Somers is a crookback.
2
The words 'crookback lawyer's clerk' still rankled.
3
The interior of the square was a maze of stalls and crookback aisles, shaded by awnings of woven grass.
4
You, the crookback lawyer!'
5
All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep.
6
Between the buildings were broad roads lined with trees, wandering crookback streets, and alleys so narrow that two men could not walk abreast.
7
Henry says, 'His grandfather left Crookback for my father's service.'
8
Both the Crookback Range and Mount Silverstone looked awfully big.
9
But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.
10
All the buildings were dominated by the Crookback Range, a dark mass that filled half the northern horizon.
11
'You are the crookback the King jested over at Fulford.
12
'I ask nothing from you, crookback.' He lay down again, looking across at the window.
13
'It went for the crookback lawyer,' someone said.
14
'You feel sorry for that monk, crookback?
15
"This I think belongs to you," submitted the crookback.
16
'You annoy me, crookback,' he said.
Frequent collocations
Crookback through the time