Crook

Expressions using "crook": by hook or by crook ♦ by hook or crook ♦ camp Crook ♦ Crook County ♦ crook the elbow ♦ get smth. on the crook ♦ on the crook ♦ shepherd's crook. Additional references.

Beginning with "crook": crook-back, crook-backed, crook-shouldered.

Ending with "crook": Throw-crook.

Afrikaans

ploert (cheat, rogue, scoundrel). (various references)

Albanian

shkop bariu, pjesë e kthyer, përkul (bend, curve, decline, double, flex, hunch, incline, inflect, overarch, warp, weigh down), lakoj (bend, curve, decline, inflect), kthesë (bend, bow, circumvolution, curve, elbow, flexure, jar, offset, oxbow, sinuosity, slew, switch, turn, turn round, turnabout, twist, volte-face, wheel, wheeling, wind), kërrabë, i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked), hajdut (burglar, crack, Cutpurse, pilferer, robber, stealer, thief, yegg), dorezë (butt, glove, grip, gripe, griping, haft, handgrip, handle, joystick, knob, stock, tommy bar), bisht (fag end, flagellum, handle, prat, queue, scape, stalk, stem, stub, tail, tail end, tip, train), çapkën (cheat, naughty, puckish, rogue, urchin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حنى (crouch, decline, double, lean), ‏تلوى (crank, meander, ramble, roll, screw, squirm, tangle, twist, wriggle, writhe), ‏سرق (convey, crib, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏عصت ألاسقف, ‏عصا الراعي (staff), ‏خطاف أداة عقفاء, ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏المحتال (artist, bluffer, cheat, dodger, impostor, juggler, kite, knave, queue jumper, rook, shark, sharper, skin, swindler), ‏إنحناء النهر, ‏إنحناء (bend, bowing, crouch, curvature, dipping, drooping, duck, stoop, tendency), ‏إنعقف (hook), ‏إنعقاف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

хващам с кука, кука (clevis, gab, grapple, holdfast, hook), владишки жезъл (crosier), овчарска гега, мошеник (blackguard, cheat, dead beat, deadbeat, dodger, grafter, gyp, hustler, jongleur, knave, palmer, picaroon, rogue, scoundrel, sham, shark, sharp, skin, trickster, varlet, wretch), завой (bend, curve, elbow, flexure, hook, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, turn, turning, wind, winding), извивка (bend, convolution, curve, flection, flexion, fold, incurvation, indentation, kink, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, twine, twist, wave, wind, winding), извивам се (meander, nutate, spring, sweep, turn in, twist, wind, wriggle), извивам като кука. (various references)

Chinese 

骗子 (Cheater, Crooks, Deceiver, Hustler, swindler). (various references)

Czech

zákrut (bend, crank, elbow), podvodník (cheat, con man, confidence trickster, conman, deceiver, dodger, fake, fiddler, fraud, impostor, juggler, phoney, phony, racketeer, rascal, runner, shark, sharper, swindler, trickster), ohyb (bend, bent, curve, elbow, flex, offset, turn), ohnout (bow, bow down, curve, decline, flex, incurve), ohýbat (bow, inflect), hochštapler (impostor), hùl (baton, rod, staff, stick), grázl (bastard), gauner (racketeer, scoundrel, villain), darebák (blackguard, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, villain), berla. (various references)

Danish

ophavsmand til bedragerier (fraud, swindler), krogethed, kantkrumning (edge bend, free-side bend, spring), bedrager (fraud, swindler). (various references)

Dutch

schavuit (cheat, rogue), ploert (cheat, rogue, scoundrel), ellendeling (cheat, rogue), boef (cheat, rogue). (various references)

Esperanto

fripono (cheat, rogue). (various references)

Faeroese

skálkur (cheat, rogue), bakbeist (cheat, rogue). (various references)

Farsi 

کلاه بردار (Swindler), کجی (Clubfoot, Curvature, Hade, List, Obliquity, Skew, Slant, Slope, Tilt), کج کردن (Bend, Contort, Deflect, Distort, Hook, Incline, Inflect, List, Slant, Strain, Tilt, Top), عصای سرکج , خم کردن (Bend, Crank, Crump, Flex, Hunch, Incline, Limber, Reeve, Wry), ادم قلابی . (various references)

Finnish

roisto (cheat, knave, rascal, rogue, scoundrel, villain), reunalenkous (edge bend, free-side bend, spring), mutkaisuus (tortuosity). (various references)

French

escroc. (various references)

Frisian

stjonkert (cheat, rogue), skoelje (cheat, rogue). (various references)

German

Krümmung (bend, bending, curvature, curve, figure, flexion, meander, turn), krümmen (arch, bend, crank, double, hunch, hunch up, meander, skew, to crank, to crook, to curve, writhe), gauner (cheat, chiseler, chiselers, crooks, cunning devil, gouger, grafter, hawk, humbug, knaves, operator, racketeer, rascal, rogue, rook, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, shyster, slicker, swindler, thief, toughs, trickster, tricksters), ganove (hood, hoodlum, slicker, villain). (various references)

Greek 

γκλίτσα (shepherd's crook). (various references)

Hawaiian

çapkën (cheat, rogue). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקל רועים, לכופף (bend, curve, flex), כו� � ת (shank), � וכל (charlatan, crafty, impostor, knave, miscreant, racketeer, rogue, scoundrel, shark, sharper, swindrel, trickster). (various references)

Hungarian

csaló (abuser, bilk, blackleg, bobber, cheat, colubrine, deceitful, double-dealer, fake, faker, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, gouge, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, jockey, juggler, leg, masquerader, picaroon, piker, rogue, roguish, rook, rooky, shark, sharper, skinner, snide, swindler, trickster), rossz (as mischievous as a monkey, bad, baseness, be naughty, crappy, crummy, disagreeable, disreputableness, evil, gimpy, half-assed, hank, harm, have the needles, ill, ill temper, ill-treatment, incorrect, iniquitous, maleficent, meagre, mischief, mischievous, miserable, misgiving, naff, nasty, naughty, poor, punk, raunchy, shabby excuse, sleazo, sleazy, sniffy, stinky, tin-pot, to be in a bad way, to be on bad terms with sy, to be on the wrong track, to be out of kilter, to feel poorly, to go the wrong way, to go to the bad, to make bad weather, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, wrong), püspökbot, pásztorbot (crosier, crozier), kanyarulat (bend, curve, sweep, twist, volt, wimple, wreath), kampó (clasp, clench, crotchet, dog, hanger, hook, loop), hajlít (bend, bent, buckle, cambered, curve, flex, sprang, sprung, to bend, to crook, to curl, to curve, to flex, to spring, to sway), hajlat (bend, bight, camber, curve, elbow, run, shoulder, sinus, valley), görbület (bend, bending, camber, curvature, curve, elbow, flex, long bend, ply), beteg (a patient, ailing, bad, be ill, be poorly, dicky, diseased, ill, invalid, patient, sick, to be ill, to be out of health, to be under the weather, to feel crummy, to feel ill, unsound, unwell). (various references)

Indonesian

penyeleweng (deviationist), pengait (hook, linking), lekuk (concave, dent, groove), kaitan (connection, hook, link), bajingan (knave, rascal, rogue, thief, tramp). (various references)

Italian

curvatura (bend, bending, buckle, camber, crookedness, curvature, curve, curving, flexion, stoop, warp), curvarsi (bend, bow, cant, curve, stoop, warp), curvare (bend, bend down, bow, corner, curve, inflect, turn, warp), uncino (crotchet, gaff, grapnel, hanger, hook), truffatore (cheat, racketeer, rook, trickster), sciabolatura (camber, sweep), rammollimento (dropping, sagging, softening), piegare (bend, bow, diffract, droop, duck, flex, fold, give in, incline, inflect, lap, subdue, tend, tilt, tuck, turn, yield), pezzente (ragamuffin, tramp, trash, villain), lestofante (chiseler, chiselers, con man, swindler, toughs), gancio (catch, clasp, clip, crotchet, fastener, fastening, hanger, hook), falcatura (edge bend, free-side bend, spring), bastone da pastore (shepherd's crook), autore di frodi (fraud, swindler), ammollamento (softening). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

詐欺師 (imposter, swindler). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぺて�"し (imposter, swindler), さぎし (imposter, swindler), ふとくか�" (swindler), か�"ぶつ (converting money into goods, cunning man, dried fish, groceries, purchasing), あっか�" (best part, feeling feverish and chilly, highlight, ill or unhappy feeling, masterpiece, rascal, ruffian, scoundrel, villain), わ�"きょく (bend, curve). (various references)

Korean 

도둑 (Crooks, thief, Thieves). (various references)

Manx

rag-rannee (cad, good-for-nothing, rascal, reprobate, rogue, tough), croagane (gaff, hook), cammey (bow, buckling, crank, crank of object, distort, distortion, hook, hook as finger, slope), cammaghey (distort, inflect, pervert, twist). (various references)

Papiamen

kanaya (cheat, rogue), desgrasiadu (cheat, rogue), desgrasiado (cheat, rogue). (various references)

Pig Latin

ookcray.(various references)

Polish

łotr (cheat, rogue). (various references)

Portuguese

curvatura (bent, buckle, curvature, flexure, hog, wind). (various references)

Romanian

curburã (bend, bent, buckle, camber, crack, curvature, curve, flexion, flexure, sweep), cârjã (crutch, leg, staff, support), cârjã episcopalã, cârlig (clamp, clasp, crotchet, Fang, grapnel, grapple, hanger, harpoon, hook, peg, staple), clenci (artifice, belt hook, dispute, hook, quarrel, thorn), cocoaşã (boss, gibbosity, hump, humpback, hunch, hunchback), cotiturã (bend, bent, curve, double, elbow, meander, turn, turning, twist, wind, winding), cot (bend, crack, cubit, curvature, curve, elbow, Ell, knee, knuckle, loop, meander, sweep, turn, turning, twist, winding), gârbovi (bend), escroc (bilk, biter, blackguard, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, desperado, double-dealer, duffer, faker, fraud, gambler, gamester, gouge, gyp, impostor, jockey, juggler, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, scab, shark, sharp, sharper, snap, swindler), suci (bend, dislocate, distort, screw, sprain, turn, twist, wield, wring), gheb (boss, gibbosity, hillock, hump, hunch), încovoia (bend, hunch, inflect, recurve, warp), meandru (bend, double, elbow, ins and outs, loop, meander, turn, winding), se încovoia (flex, recurve, sag, stoop, warp, yield), se îndoi (be doubtful of, bend, cast doubts on smth., discredit, distrust, double up, doubt, get out of true, give, hook on, pucker, query, question, sag, spring, stand in doubt, suspect, verge, yield), se curba, strâmba (bend, cast, contort, distort, grimace, pucker, twist), îndoi (bend, bow, cockle, crease, crouch, curve, dog's-ear, double, draw, ear-mark, fold, hunch, inflect, ply, redouble, stoop, tuck in), încovoiere (bend, flexure, inflexion, kink, sag, stoop). (various references)

Russian 

украсть (filch, nobble, pinch, snaffle, steal, thieve, walk off with), скрючиваться (shrivel), сгибать (bend, buckle, flex, fold, hunch, inflect), сгиб (flexion, fold), крюк (gab, grapnel, grapple, grappling iron, hook, piton, rocking-turn), вылавливать, обманщик (bluffer, charlatan, cheat, cheater, counterfeiter, deceiver, deceptive person, double-dealer, faker, fiddler, four-flusher, fraudster, impostor, phoney, tricker, trickster, welsher), бестия (cheat, rogue), бес (abortive, aimless, devil, fiend), посох (crosier, hock, pikestaff), поворот (rotation, slew, swerve, tumbling, turn, turn round, turning, turn-round, twist, veer, veering, wheeling, winding), плут (blackleg, doer, juggler, no good, picaroon, rascal, rogue, slyboots, varlet), изгиб (arc, bend, curvature, curve, double, flection, flexure, incurvation, inflection, meanders, offset, twist, wriggle). (various references)

Scottish

cromag (a crook, any little crooked thing), cròcan (a crook), bachall (shepherd's crook), bac (a crook, hindrance, restrain, restraint). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

varalica (charlatan, chouse, double-dealer, fake, fraud, gyp, impostor, jack-in-the-box, mountebank, sharper, swindler, trickster, wheeler dealer), lopov (blackleg, burglar, hacker, lifter, picklock, prig, robber, sneak thief, taker, thief, yegg), kuka (hook), štap (billy, cane, goad, prod, rod, stick, truncheon, verge). (various references)

Spanish

curvarse (bend), curvado (bent), curva (bend, contour, curve, hook, loop, turn, upswing, wind), combado (camber, cambered), cayado (cammock, sheephook, stick), ladrar (bark, bay, give tongue, leave out, rumble, speak, yap), ladrón (burglar, cracksman, grabber, housebreaker, lag, raider, robber, shoplifter, thief, villain), estafador (cheat, gyp, hustler, racketeer, shark, sharp, sharper, Skinner, swindler, twister), encorvarse (bend, flex, hook, stoop), bergante (chiseler, chiselers, swindler, toughs), báculo (crosier), ablandamiento (lifting, raising, softening). (various references)

Swedish

krok (bend, curve, grapple, grappling iron, hitch, hook), krök (bend, elbow, flection, inflection, loop, twist), bedragare (bilker, cheat, deceiver, defrauder, double-dealer, fraud, imposter, impostor, juggler, sharper, swindler). (various references)

Turkish

sahtekâr (counterfeiter, crooked, dishonest, double-tongued, fabricator, fake, faker, fakir, forger, fraud, fraudulent, impostor, make believe, phoney, phony, sham, shammer), piskopos asası (crosier, verge), kanca (barb, catch, crampiron, grapnel, grapple, grappling hook, grappling iron, holdfast, hook), kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, curl, curl up, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizz, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer), bükmek (bend, buckle, contort, curl, curl up, curve, distort, double, entwine, entwist, flex, fold, fold down, hook, inflect, intwine, spring, strand, throw, twine, twist, wind up, wrench, wrest, wring), bükülmek (bend, curl up, curve, fold, spring, twine, twist, wind), çoban değneği (shepherd's crook). (various references)

Ukrainian

крючок (crotchet, hook), крюк (grapnel, grappling, hanger, hook, piton), кривий (awry, bandy, bent, cam, cripple, crooked, gammy, lame, wry), корчитися (squirm, writhe, wry), корчити, горбитися (hump, hunch), горбити (hump, hunch), гак (hook, piton), викривлятися (warp), викривляти (contort, screw, wrench), вигин (arc, bend, camber, curve, elbow, twist), зігнутий (applied, arched, bent, bowed, cranked, crooked, curly, curved, deflected), згинатися (bend down, curve, double up, hog, vault), згинати (curve, double in, flex, fold, inflect, overbend), патериця (stave). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái móc (catch, caught, clasp, detent, fastener, fastening, guard-chain, hanger, hook, loop), sự uốn cong (curvature), sự gập lại chỗ xong. (various references)

Welsh

bagl (crutch, leg). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crook": crookback, crookbacked, crookbacks, crooked, crookeder, crookedest, crookedly, crookedness, crookednesses, crookeries, crookery, crooking, crookneck, crooknecks, crooks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crook" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caroo, clook, Cnooc, coook, craik, crio, crok, crol, cromo, Cronk, croo, Croob, croock, crood, croog, crooke, crooky, croom, croop, croot, croow, croq, crusk, drook, grook, krooh, Kroom, vrook. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cook, cork, rock, rook.

-2 letters: coo, cor, kor, orc, roc.

-3 letters: or.

+1 letter: cooker, crooks, recook.

+2 letters: cookers, cookery, crooked, dornock, gorcock, kerchoo, oarlock, outrock, precook, recooks, rockoon, rowlock.

+3 letters: backdoor, backroom, bookrack, buckaroo, buckeroo, caretook, cockcrow, convoker, cookware, corkwood, coworker, crookery, crooking, dornocks, forelock, gorcocks, jackaroo, jackeroo, moorcock, oarlocks, outrocks, overcook, precooks, recooked, rockoons, rockrose, rockwork, roorback, rowlocks, sickroom.

+4 letters: backrooms, bookracks, buckaroos, buckeroos, checkroom, cloakroom, clockwork, coachwork, cockcrows, cockhorse, cockroach, convokers, cookeries, cookwares, corkboard, corkwoods, coworkers, crookback, crookeder, crookedly, crookneck, folkloric, forelocks, foreshock, jackaroos, jackeroos, moorcocks, outrocked, overcooks, overstock, pickaroon, pickproof, precooked, recooking, roadblock, rockbound, rockhound, rockroses, rockworks, roorbacks, rootstock, scrapbook, sickrooms, stockroom, workforce.