Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The cry of the wild goose. Also honk (which see).
- Sick or feigned to be sick; in poor condition; in ‘bad trim,’ as a race-horse.
- Unsound; cranky; shaky; unstable; ‘crooked’: as, crank financial institutions.
- Obtained by theft or fraud; stolen: as, cronk goods.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- v. cry like a goose
- v. utter a hoarse sound, like a raven
Examples
“At any moment, I was expecting an old cronk to appear from behind the hangars, trembling and hippety-hopping and leaving a trail of nuts and bolts behind it to the shriek of rusty gear wheels, smoking rockets and horn blasts with the music of La”
“Good horses were just as expensive in those days as they were before the war, but we subalterns did not buy expensive horses; we picked up good jumpers that had gone cronk, and trusted to the vet., occasional firing, plenty of bandages, and not too hard work to keep them going.”
“DL made the transition almost seemlessly. straight from 1 at the broncos, qld and Aust to 6 for all three as well. the next aust 6 will be thurston with cronk at 7.”
“If anyone it should be JT moves to 5/8,cronk to Half back smith as hooker.”
“And he doesn't have the kick in play game of a cooper cronk.”
“WHAT A GREAT TEAM picked on the back of the mighty manly sea eagles, DCE is a way better no.7 thank cronk who has nothing when not playing with slater, good too see b.stewart get his test spot back from 2007, this team also shows me that the nsw team in 2012 will be stronger than in 2011”
“Do you think cooper cronk will finally get his chance at origin this year?”
“It's just that cuts like "Freedom," "Sex," and "Drinking Time" deliver a no-bullshit sound with just the right amount of aggro juvenilia, horn section cronk, and sing-along snottiness.”
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Nancy Cronk: Growing Up In Detroit: Community Organizing With Mostaccioli
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Nancy Cronk: Growing Up In Detroit: Community Organizing With Mostaccioli
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cronk’.
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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Which see
A list of words with definitions containing the phrase "which see."
moteur, fancy, grass, frog, Art, illusion, battleship, duck, beaver, Seder, clam, zythiaceæ and 118 more...
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Manx
Words that are Manx or of Manx origin. This is a language about which I know next to nothing, and therefore make no claims of being correct about anything.
See also the bound-to-remain...coghal, byddage, cronk, qualtagh, tynwald, manx loaghtan, bunscoill ghaelgagh, shassoo, credjue, nealloo, craid, mraane and 202 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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The Other Side of Silence
A sound garden.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. --Walt Whitmantin cry, chark, gride, scroop, crepitation, stridulation, swazzle, death-ruckle, cronk, rumble, borborygmus, crowling and 165 more...
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Some Words That I Love
hopemonger, googolplex, agog, pneumonia, haiku, icky, blurgh, chuck, swatch, zoinks, terrorist, foresight and 2 more...
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Onomatopoeia That Best Describes You:...
All entries here have been collected from Wordie user profiles.
clang!, arf, bri bri bri, apchoo, kertwang, gush, gurgle, bungle, i..., fwap!, oopps!!, bling, vootlewurdle, poink! and 78 more...
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Discordial
Annoying, loud, or awful sounds.
portamento, scroop, clangor, plangent, stentorian, hubbub, cacophony, burble, guggle, donder, sough, racket and 82 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cronk.
ravages crank up the cronk a notch? Dec 15, 2007
uselessness I have a new onomatopoeia for my profile. :-P Sep 27, 2007
yarb Manx for "hill". Sep 27, 2007