Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition.
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- adjective
lame ;disabled ;crippled
Etymologies
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cripple + -y
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Examples
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(in response to my delicious spaghetti and meatballs, yes, made with cripply hands).
Law and Letters 2009
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Well, he'd only be like one o 'them turnspitty dogs then; and it always seems to me a turnspitty to let such cripply things live. "
Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea George Manville Fenn 1870
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