crochet

• crotchet (archaic)

From French crochet, from Middle French crochet, from Old French crochet, crokét (“curved instrument, hook”), diminutive of Old French croc (“hook”), 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 English crōc (“crook, hook”), Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”). Doublet of crocket, croquet, and crotchet. More at crook, crooked.

• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹoʊˈʃeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

crochet (plural crochets)

1. Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.
2. A certain crest of enamel on the molar teeth of some rhinoceroses.

crochet (third-person singular simple present crochets, present participle crocheting, simple past and past participle crocheted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle; to make interlocking loops of thread.

From croc +‎ -et with palatalization.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔ.ʃɛ/

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crochet m (plural crochets)

1. hook (rod bent into a curved shape)
2. (typography) square bracket
3. fang (of snake)
4. (architecture) crocket
5. crochet
6. (boxing) hook
7. (soccer, rugby) sidestep
8. detour

• au crochet de
• crocheter
• vivre aux crochets de

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

• crochat, crochett

From Old French crochet; doublet of croket.

• IPA^(key): /krɔˈt͡ʃɛt/, /ˈkrɔt͡ʃɛt/

crochet (plural crochettes)

1. hook, crook
2. hooked staff
3. crotchet (musical note)
4. (rare) crocket

• English: crotchet

• “crochet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

crochet m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of crachet

Unadapted borrowing from French crochet. Doublet of colchete.

crochet m (plural crochets)

1. Alternative form of crochê

Borrowed from French croquet.

crochet n (uncountable)

1. croquet

crochet m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of croché
2. (architecture) crocket