crooking

English

Verb

crooking

1. present participle and gerund of crook

Noun

crooking (plural crookings)

1. The act by which something is crooked.
   • 1915, John Galsworthy, The Freelands:

     […] her rushes to the front door, and long hugs when he came back from a travel; all those later crookings of her little finger in his […]