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Francine
What`s the meaning of the word "crook"?
As I could see reading the definition in dictionaries "crook" has a bad connotation but I didn`t get exactly what it means.
In the following example:
"Caroline stopped walking and turned to her husband, crooking her finger."
Which sign "crooking her fingers" means? thumbs down?
2020年2月16日 18:54
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Crook has a couple of different meanings, to “crook your finger” is to bend it, as if while pointing at someone—it is different than thumbs down. My assumption with the sentence you gave is that she is signaling for her husband to come toward her. It is really not commonly used in this way though, at least not in the USA! Crook is much more commonly used to mean thief, someone who steals, or someone who is untrustworthy. If someone was talking about a person and called them “crooked” it would mean they were not a good person, not to be trusted. However if they were talking about an object such as a line, or a road, or a painting on the wall and described it as “crooked” it would just mean that it was not straight.
2020年2月16日
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Two different meanings in these examples
1. ‘Crooked her finger’ = bent her finger
2. ‘A crook’ = a thief
2020年2月17日
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Francine
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