cronk

American

[krongk, krawngk] / krɒŋk, krɔŋk /

adjective

Australian Slang.

sick or feeble.

cronk British

/ krɒŋk /

adjective

unfit; unsound

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Etymology

Origin of cronk

1875–80; < Yiddish or German krank, Middle High German kranc weak

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cronk

Footsteps cronk cronk cronked down the wooden stairs.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Those chaps is gone cronk and done their villainy for nothing.

From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood

When a girl's gone cronk, like you, she must expect to see white things darting about.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

Or only a bittern cronk, Then all was still?

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Thomas Buford Meteyard

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