1 & 2 able-bodied, fine, fit, fit and well, fit as a fiddle, hale and hearty, healthy, robust, tranquil, untroubled, unworried, up to par, well. English Collins Dictionary-English synonyms & Thesaurus. See also: sick headache, sick leave, sick list, sick note. To ensure the quality of comments, you need to be connected.
On this day in 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal that eventually ended his presidency, President Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors gathered at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, that he is ânot a crook.â. Nixon made the now-famous declaration during a televised question-and-answer session with Associated Press editors.
crook (third-person singular simple present crooks, present participle crooking, simple past and past participle crooked) To bend. He crooked his finger toward me. c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning. 1784, William Blake, Songs from An Island in the Moon, in Blake: The Complete Poems, edited by W. H. Stevenson, Routledge, 3rd edition, 2007, p. 50,