crippler

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noun

A person who, or thing which cripples.

OriginEnglish cripple ← Middle English crepel ← Old English crypel →
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Meanings

nouncrippler (plural cripplers)

plural cripplers

  1. A person who, or thing which cripples.
  2. A corrugated board used to grain leather.
  3. biologyA sighting of an extraordinarily rare bird, such that it almost has an paralysing effect on the birder.

    Blue-headed Wagtails and migrant Warblers were nice but hardly ‘cripplers’.

    1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 113

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*grewbʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*kreupaną
  3. Proto-Germanic*krupilaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*krupil
  5. Old Englishcrypel
  6. Middle Englishcrepel
  7. Englishcripple
  8. Englishcrippler

From cripple + -er.

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APA

crippler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crippler

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“crippler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crippler. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crippler,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crippler.

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