crick

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A painful stiffness in some part of the body, like the neck or back, which makes it difficult to move the affected body part for some time; a cramp.
    — I had a crick in my neck for a week after ordering the wrong pillow at the Graylyn Estate […]
  2. Alternative form of creek. Appalachia,alt-of,alternative
  3. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
  4. A small jackscrew.
动词 v.
  1. To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).
    — Stomach sleeping never worked for her because her neck cricked and pained in so short a time, that she never got the chance to fall asleep that way although the rest of her body snuggled well into the bed in that position.
  2. To make a sharp, penetrating sound; chirp. intransitive
  3. To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
    — He'd fallen asleep after all (and he'd done it in such a way as to crick his neck and his back and put his right arm to sleep; hardly a good start to a busy day) and now daylight was seeping through the bald patches in the thatch, ...
  4. To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.
    — He stopped a few feet from her, probably because he'd have to crick his neck to glare at her and that would just be embarrassing for him. “Dealing with garbage suits you.”

词形变化

cricks plural cricks present,singular,third-person cricking participle,present cricked participle,past cricked past cricks plural cricks present,singular,third-person cricking participle,present cricked participle,past cricked past cricks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cricky uncrick

词源

词源 1
From Middle English crike, crykke (“muscular spasm of the neck”), attested since the 1400s. Likely related to Old Norse kriki (“bend; nook”), whence also crick (“creek”) and creek.
词源 2
See creek.
词源 3
Uncertain. Possibly an alteration of creak; or perhaps from Middle English crikken, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, or Proto-West Germanic *krakkjan
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