Associations to the word «Crookneck»

Wiktionary

CROOKNECK, noun. Any of several yellow varieties of squash having a curved neck.

Dictionary definition

CROOKNECK, noun. Yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats