croquette

Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution). Doublet of korokke.

• enPR: krō-kĕt' IPA^(key): /kɹoʊˈkɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

croquette (plural croquettes)

1. (cooking) A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

• → Irish: cróicéad

• croquet

• croquette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• coquetter

From croquer (“to crunch”) +‎ -ette, 18th c.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔ.kɛt/

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croquette f (plural croquettes)

1. (cooking) croquette (minced, cooked food which is then deep-fried)
2. (by extension) kibble (grain for use as animal feed)
3. (informal, slightly offensive) a beanpole (a skinny and unmuscular person)

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