croche

See also: croché and crochê

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English croche, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French croche, equivalent to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French crochet (“hook”), croc (“hook”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *krok (“hook”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *krukaz, *krōkaz (“something bent, hook”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, wind”). Cognate with Old Norse krókr (“hook”).

Noun

croche (plural croches)

1. A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French croche, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French croche, feminine form of croc (“hook”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *krok (“hook”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *krukaz, *krōkaz (“something bent, hook”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, wind”). Cognate with Old Norse krókr (“hook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔʃ/

Adjective

croche (plural croches)

1. (Canada, informal) hooked; curved
2. (Canada, informal) crooked; not straight as it should be
3. (Canada, informal) crooked; dishonest or of otherwise dubious morality
   • 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• (of dubious morality): pas catholique

Noun

croche f (plural croches)

1. (music) an eighth note or quaver

Derived terms

• double croche
• triple croche
• quadruple croche

Further reading

• “croche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cocher

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Old French

Etymology

Feminine form of croc

Adjective

croche m (oblique and nominative feminine singular croche)

1. hooked; curved

   un nez croche

   a hooked nose

Declension

Declension of croche

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	croches	croche	croche
	Oblique	croche	croche	croche
Plural	Subject	croche	croches	croche
	Oblique	croches	croches	croche

Noun

croche ?

1. hook