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crooch, croochie, croochty, crootch, crouch, crouchie, croutch,
crooch [krutʃ]
n. The back when bent, a hump-back.
adj. croochie Walking with a bent back or with the shoulders humped up to the ears.
 
From Gaelic cruit.
crood, croodle, croodlen, croodlin, croodlin$, croude, croudle,
crood [kruːd]
n. The cooing of a dove.
 
croodle [kruːdl]
n. A cooing noise.
v. To coo like a dove, purr, hum or sing quietly.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
croodlin [ˈkruːdlɪn]: Cooing like a dove.
crappen, crappened, craupen, craupened, cropen, croppen, croppened, kroppen, kroppend, kroppn,
croppen [I. ˈkrɔpən & ˈkrapən]
adj. Bent, twisted, contracted, shrunk, narrowed.
acorss, acrass, acroas, acroass, across, acrouss, corse, corsin, corss, crass, croas, croass, crose, cross, crossag, crossed, crossen, crossie, crossin, crossit, crossock, crosst, crucifee, crucifee$d, crucifee$t, crucifie, crucifiet, crucyfie, kors, korse, krossek, krossick,
cross [krɔs, kroːs]
also arch. corse [koːrs]
n. A cross, a market-place.
dim. crossie
v. To cross.
pt. pp. crosst
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
across [ə-]: Across.
crossin [ˈkrɔsɪn,ˈ koːrsɪn]: Crossing.
crossag: NN.b. The starfish Asterias rubens
crossock: I.Sh. The starfish Asterias rubens
crucifee: To crucify. pt. crucifee'd
Crossfoord, Crossford, Crossfuird,
Crossfuird [ˈkrosfɪrd]
pn. Crossford (Dumfries and Galloway, Lanarkshire, Fife).
Crossmaleef, Crossmaloof, Crossmalufe, Crossmaluif,
Crossmaluif [krɔsməlɪf]
pn. Crossmyloof (Glasgow).
Croshraguel, Crossraguel, Crossraigel, Crossraigle,
Crossraguel [krɔsˈregl]
pn. Crossraguel (South Ayrshire).
crotach, crottyach, crotyach, krotyach,
crotach [NN.a. ˈkroːtjəx, ˈkrʌtjəx]
n. A small stout person.
crotal, crottel, crottle, crottles, crottles, scriota, scroittie, scrottie, scrottyie, skroita, skrootie, skrotta, skrottee, skrotti, skrottyee, skrotyee, skrotyei,
crottle [krɔt(ə)l]
I.Sh. scrottie [skrɔte]
n. A general term for the dye-producing lichens. The dye produced from the lichen.
pl. crottles
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
black crottles: The lichen Parmelia saxatilis.
licht crottles: The lichen Lecanora pallescens.
stane crottles: U. The lichen Parmelia saxatilis.
critly, crittly, crotal, crotlie, crotly, crottel, crottle, crottles, crottly, grottly,
crottle [krɔt(ə)l]
n. A small piece of anything hard, such as coal or stone.
pl. crottles Small fragments.
v. To crumble away.
 
crottly
adj. Fragmentary, crumbly.

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