croquet

Borrowed from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet, crocket, and crotchet.

• (UK) enPR: krō'kā, IPA^(key): /ˈkɹəʊkeɪ/, /ˈkɹəʊki/

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• (US) enPR: krōkā', IPA^(key): /kɹoʊˈkeɪ/

croquet (countable and uncountable, plural croquets)

1. (uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
2. (countable, games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
3. (countable) A croquette.

• → Portuguese: cróquete, croquet (proscribed)

croquet (third-person singular simple present croquets, present participle croqueting, simple past and past participle croqueted)

1. (transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.

Borrowed from English croquet.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kɾuˈkɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kɾoˈket]

croquet m (plural croquets)

1. croquet

• “croquet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “croquet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “croquet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /kroːˈkɛt/

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• Hyphenation: cro‧quet
• Rhymes: -ɛt

croquet f (plural croquetten, diminutive croquetje n)

1. superseded spelling of kroket

• The spelling croquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔ.kɛ/

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From croquer +‎ -et.

croquet m (plural croquets)

1. croquette

Borrowed from English croquet, from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet.

croquet m (plural croquets)

1. (sports) croquet

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