Usage examples (12)

• His dad was watching TV, sitting in that periscope stoop of his, crookback, like he might tumble into the rug.
• Or a crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken.
• Francesca is betrothed to Gianciotto who, this being the Middle Ages, is allowed no particular identity beyond being a menacing crookback à la Richard III.
• "We are going to see pretty things," said the hostess; "that tall crookback is the Vidame d'Orrain himself, and 'twas just the same way last year that he took poor...