cripply

adj

cripply

adj

Etymology From cripple + -y.

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:

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