croche

Borrowed 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”).

croche (plural croches)

1. (obsolete) A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler, or as the predevelopmental stage of the antler.

• “croche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Inherited 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”).

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔʃ/

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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

   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.

croche f (plural croches)

1. (music) an eighth note or quaver

• double croche
• triple croche
• quadruple croche
• quintuple croche
• sextuple croche

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

• cocher

croche

1. alternative form of crucche

croche

1. alternative form of crouche

Feminine form of croc

croche m (oblique and nominative feminine singular croche)

1. hooked; curved

   un nez croche

   a hooked nose

croche ?

1. hook