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Crook vs Crock - What's the difference?

crook | crock |

In transitive terms the difference between crook and crock

is that crook is to bend while crock is to store (butter, etc.) in a crock.

As an adjective crook

is bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.

crook

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) croke, crok, from (etyl) *.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
  • :
  • *(Thomas Phaer) (c.1510-1560)
  • *:through lanes, and crooks , and darkness
  • A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
  • A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
  • :
  • *
  • *:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the 'crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  • (lb) A lock or curl of hair.
  • (lb) A gibbet.
  • (lb) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
  • A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
  • *1970 , The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition'', published 1976, Oxford University Press, ''Psalms 23-4, p.583:
  • *:Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.
  • A bishop's staff of office.
  • An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
  • *(Thomas Cranmer) (1489-1556)
  • *:for all your brags, hooks, and crooks
  • A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
  • *1973 November 17, (Richard Nixon), reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post'', ''Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’ ,
  • *:"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook'. Well, I?m not a ' crook . I?ve earned everything I?ve got."
  • A pothook.
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:as black as the crook
  • (lb) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
    • Synonyms
    * (criminal) See
    Derived terms
    * by hook or by crook * by hook or crook (US)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bend.
    • He crooked his finger toward me.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.
  • * 1917 , , Part 4, Chapter 5,
    • “.
  • To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
  • * Ascham
    • There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawful games.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.
    Derived terms
    * crooked (adjective)

    Etymology 2

    From . Australian National Dictionary Centre Home » Australian words » Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms » C

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
    • That work you did on my car is crook , mate
    Not turning up for training was pretty crook .
    Things are crook at Tallarook.
  • * 2004 , , A Cry from the Dark , page 21,
    • “Things are crook at home at the moment.”
    “They?re always crook at my home.”
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
    • I?m feeling a bit crook .
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.
    • be crook''' at/about''; ''go '''crook at
  • * 2006 , Jimmy Butt, Felicity Dargan, I've Been Bloody Lucky: The Story of an Orphan Named Jimmy Butt , page 17,
    • Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.
  • * 2007 , Jo Wainer, Bess'', ''Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories , page 159,
    • I went home on the tram, then Mum went crook at me because I was late getting home—I had tickets for Mum and her friend to go to the Regent that night and she was annoyed because I was late.
  • * 2007 , Ruby Langford Ginibi, Don?t Take Your Love to Town , page 100,
    • I went crook at them for not telling me and as soon as she was well enough I took her home to the camping area and she soon picked up.
  • * 2009 , Carolyn Landon, Cups With No Handles: Memoir of a Grassroots Activist , page 234,
    • Mum went crook at me for wasting money, but when Don got a job and spent all his money on a racing bike, she didn?t say a thing to him.

    Usage notes

    Synthetic comparative and superlative forms (crooker'', ''crookest ) also find frequent use.
    Derived terms
    * crook as Rookwood

    References

    crock

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) crokke, from (etyl) crocc, . See also (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
  • * 1590-96 , '', 1750, ''The Works of Spenser , Volume 3, page 181,
    • Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his lea?ings vain; / Like fooli?h Flies about an Honey-Crock ; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.
  • A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
  • (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
    • Old crocks ’ home = home for the aged
  • * 1925 , , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0300621,
    • He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance.“Not so bad that, for a crock ,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask.
  • * 1932 , Helen Simpson, Boomerang , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0800611,
    • He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can?t ask a girl to marry a crock .”
  • (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).
    • Old crocks race = veteran car rally
  • (slang, countable, and, uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
  • :That is a bunch of crock .
    • The story is a crock .
  • A low stool.
  • * 1709 , '', 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), ''The Tatler , 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12,
    • I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break something or injure someone.
  • * 1904 , P.G. Wodehouse, [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/gldbt10.txt]:
    • "That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."
  • * 2007 January 3, Daily Mirror :
    • Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel
  • * 2006 April 30, The Sunday Times :
    • Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.
  • (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
  • * 1917 , John H. Pfingsten, "Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same" [http://www.google.com/patents?id=G3xVAAAAEBAJ], US Patent 1371572, page 1:
    • thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock , and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.
  • * 1964 , Isabel Barnum Wingate, Know Your Merchandise [http://books.google.com/books?id=XuJGAAAAMAAJ], page 109:
    • Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).
  • * 2002 , Sandy Scrivano, Sewing With Leather & Suede [http://books.google.com/books?id=3ZXZ6f2KNLwC], ISBN 1579902731, page 95:
    • In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.
  • (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
  • * 1900 , H.A. Burberry, The Amateur Orchid Cultivators' Guide Book [http://books.google.com/books?id=PeECAAAAYAAJ], page 21:
    • The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...
  • To store (butter, etc.) in a crock.
    • (Halliwell)

    Derived terms

    * crocker * crockery * crockpot * crock of gold * crock of shit * crock haircut

    References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001] (etymology)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) , Scots (crochit), covered.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
  • Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give off crock or smut.
    • (Webster 1913)