cripply

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adjective

lame; disabled; crippled

Scrabble 16
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Meanings

adjectivecripply (comparative more cripply, superlative most cripply)

comparative more cripply · superlative most cripply

  1. lame; disabled; crippled

    When my mistress brought back the news of the little fellow's death, his poor mother, who was but a sickly, cripply sort of body, just broke her heart and died […]

    1840, Frances Milton Trollope, The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy

Origin

From cripple + -y.

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APA

cripply. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cripply

MLA

“cripply.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cripply. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cripply,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cripply.

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