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CROOKED STICK

Specialty Definition: CROOKED STICK

DomainDefinition

Literature

Crooked Stick (A). A self-willed fellow who will neither lead nor drive, neither be led nor driven. (See Crook.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: CROOKED STICK

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discourtesy

Bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub; frump, crosspatch; saucebox; crooked stick; grizzly.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CROOKED STICK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crooked stick

12

crooked stick golf course

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CROOKED STICK

Language Translations for "CROOKED STICK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Scottish

  

racan (a bandy or crooked stick). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CROOKED STICK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-k-k-o-o-r-s-t"

-3 letters: codirects, coeditors, crocoites.

-4 letters: cockiest, codirect, coeditor, cordites, corkiest, corodies, cortices, crickets, crockets, crocoite, diestock, dorkiest, kookiest, rockiest, rookiest, stockier.

-5 letters: cerotic, cestoid, ciceros, cockers, cockier, codices, coedits, cookers, cookies, cooters, cooties, cordite, credits, cretics, cricked, cricket, crocked, crocket, crooked, decocts, deticks, dickers, directs, disroot, docetic, dockers, dockets, doctors, editors, erotics, kickers, kookier.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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