Cronelike

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Like a crone; old and withered.

    "He had come to town as a child with the old woman who had adopted him, a cronelike granny straight from a storybook."

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"He had come to town as a child with the old woman who had adopted him, a cronelike granny straight from a storybook."

Etymology

From crone + -like.

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