Noun: crick
| Singular | crick |
| Plural | cricks |
Sample Sentences
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I had a crick in my neck for a week after ordering the wrong pillow at the Graylyn Estate […] [2022, Brenda Prater Sellers, You Slept Where?: Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman:]
Nouns inflected like crick
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English crike, crykke (“muscular spasm of the neck”), attested since the 1400s. Likely related to Old Norse kriki (“bend; nook”), whence also crick (“creek”) and creek. See: Middle English Nouns '
crike', Old Norse Nouns '
kriki'.