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  • But there are also several general words, such as crozzled 'dried-out, burnt up, withered', and discourse phrases, such as choose 'ow i.e. 'how', added to a sentence to reinforce inevitability - 'the outcome would be the same whatever you did'.

    On a disappearing dialect DC 2009

  • Bacon was always 'crozzled' because as a kid I liked it that way.

    On a disappearing dialect DC 2009

  • But there are also several general words, such as crozzled 'dried-out, burnt up, withered', and discourse phrases, such as choose 'ow i.e. 'how', added to a sentence to reinforce inevitability - 'the outcome would be the same whatever you did'.

    Archive 2009-01-01 DC 2009

  • The roads are littered with corpses either charred or melted, their dreams, Mr. McCarthy writes, 'ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts.'

    First Look: Viggo Mortensen in Cormac McCarthy's The Road « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • If it’s crozzled up to a cinder I don’t see why I should care.

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

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