croche
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle French croche, equivalent to English crochet (“hook”), croc (“hook”), from Frankish *krok (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krukaz, *krōkaz (“something bent, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, wind”). Cognate with Old Norse krókr (“hook”).
Noun
editcroche (plural croches)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “croche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French croche, from Old French croche, feminine form of croc (“hook”), from Frankish *krok (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krukaz, *krōkaz (“something bent, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, wind”). Cognate with Old Norse krókr (“hook”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcroche (plural croches)
- (Canada, informal) hooked; curved
- (Canada, informal) crooked; not straight as it should be
- (Canada, informal) crooked; dishonest or of otherwise dubious morality
- Synonym: pas catholique
- 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 79:
- T’a peut-être fait quelque chose de croche.
- Maybe you did something wrong.
Noun
editcroche f (plural croches)
- (music) an eighth note or quaver
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “croche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editcroche
- Alternative form of crucche
Etymology 2
editNoun
editcroche
- Alternative form of crouche
Old French
editEtymology
editFeminine form of croc
Adjective
editcroche m (oblique and nominative feminine singular croche)
Declension
editNoun
editcroche ?
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