"knee-crooking" meaning in All languages combined

See knee-crooking on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Etymology: Compare bend the knee. Etymology templates: {{m|en|bend the knee}} bend the knee Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} knee-crooking (not comparable)
  1. Obsequious; submissive. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-knee-crooking-en-adj-VlRhoHjB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for knee-crooking meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bend the knee"
      },
      "expansion": "bend the knee",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compare bend the knee.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "knee-crooking (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Terence Barnett Magness, The Brood of Time, page 378",
          "text": "With his usual dose of commonsense he recognized that nothing could really change the status quo, and all that a knee-crooking knave might do in protest was to sneak a line or two into his verse simply to let off steam […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days",
          "text": "The Norman said nothing, but he did what the bystanders considered rather surprising in a knee-crooking Frenchman. Neither bending his body nor doffing his helmet, he folded his arms across his breast and looked straight into the Lucky One's eyes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsequious; submissive."
      ],
      "id": "en-knee-crooking-en-adj-VlRhoHjB",
      "links": [
        [
          "Obsequious",
          "obsequious"
        ],
        [
          "submissive",
          "submissive"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knee-crooking"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bend the knee"
      },
      "expansion": "bend the knee",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compare bend the knee.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "knee-crooking (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Terence Barnett Magness, The Brood of Time, page 378",
          "text": "With his usual dose of commonsense he recognized that nothing could really change the status quo, and all that a knee-crooking knave might do in protest was to sneak a line or two into his verse simply to let off steam […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days",
          "text": "The Norman said nothing, but he did what the bystanders considered rather surprising in a knee-crooking Frenchman. Neither bending his body nor doffing his helmet, he folded his arms across his breast and looked straight into the Lucky One's eyes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsequious; submissive."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Obsequious",
          "obsequious"
        ],
        [
          "submissive",
          "submissive"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knee-crooking"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.