Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hunchback.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has a crooked back or round shoulders; a hunchback. Also
crouchback .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Hunched.
- noun A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
crooked back , or a person with such a back; ahunchback
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
- adjective characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
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Examples
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Or a crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken.
The Scarlet Tanager and the Sparrows Daniel Curzon 2011
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Francesca is betrothed to Gianciotto who, this being the Middle Ages, is allowed no particular identity beyond being a menacing crookback à la Richard III.
Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010
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His dad was watching TV, sitting in that periscope stoop of his, crookback, like he might tumble into the rug.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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His dad was watching TV, sitting in that periscope stoop of his, crookback, like he might tumble into the rug.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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His dad was watching TV, sitting in that periscope stoop of his, crookback, like he might tumble into the rug.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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"We are going to see pretty things," said the hostess; "that tall crookback is the Vidame d'Orrain himself, and 'twas just the same way last year that he took poor Monsieur de Mailly."
Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats
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Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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"Now, by Heaven, crookback!" he cried, and made a threatening gesture against Æsop, who eyed him insolently with a mocking smile.
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All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
yarb commented on the word crookback
...I concluded either that the marchioness had an odd taste, or that crookback courted her as proxy to a better man.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 4 ch. 8
September 18, 2008