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English
Etymology
From crook + -en.
Verb
crooken (third-person singular simple present crookens, present participle crookening, simple past and past participle crookened)
- (archaic, transitive) To make crooked.
References
Middle English
Verb
crooken
- Alternative form of croken
Yola
Noun
crooken
- Alternative form of crookeen
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32