crochet
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- Rhymes: -eɪ
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From French crochet, from Middle French crochet, from Old French crochet, crokét (“curved instrument, hook”), diminutive of Old French croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin, from Old Frankish *krōk (“hook”) or from Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”), both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“tracery, basket, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”), Middle English crōc (“crook, hook”). More at crook, crooked.
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crochet (plural crochets)
- Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.
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crochet (third-person singular simple present crochets, present participle crocheting, simple past and past participle crocheted)
- to make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle, to make interlocking loops of thread.
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Middle French crochet, from Old French crochet, crokét (“curved instrument, hook”), derivative of Old French croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin, from Old Frankish *krōk (“hook”) or from Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”), both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“tracery, basket, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”), Middle English crōc (“crook, hook”). More at crook, crooked.
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[edit] Noun
crochet m. (plural crochets)
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- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Germanic languages
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- English verbs
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Germanic languages
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Old Norse
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
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