crool

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Imitative.

Verb

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crool (third-person singular simple present crools, present participle crooling, simple past and past participle crooled)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.
    • 1873, Thomas Cooper, The Paradise of Martyrs:
      I [] lay down to rest / Upon a grassy hillock, o'er which bowed / A bush in which some late bird kept her nest. / And, as she crooled, I slept.

Etymology 2

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Orthographic variant, meant to indicate uneducated spelling of monosyllabic pronunciation, of cruel.

Adjective

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crool (comparative crooler, superlative croolest)

  1. Alternative spelling of cruel
    • 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:
      The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.
    • 1934 May 8, The Sun, Sydney, page 6, column 3:
      "That's about the croolest, outrageousest job you've found for me yet," said Willie, indignantly.

Verb

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crool (third-person singular simple present crools, present participle crooling, simple past and past participle crooled)

  1. Alternative spelling of cruel
    • 1919 August 17, The Truth, Brisbane, page 1, column 8:
      And for them me health I have "crooled."

Anagrams

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