croche

From Middle English croche, from Old French croche, equivalent to French 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. A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.

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/

croche (plural croches)

1. (Canada, informal) hooked; curved
2. (Canada, informal) not straight as it should be
3. (Canada, informal) 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 quote)

• (of dubious morality): pas catholique

croche f (plural croches)

1. (music) an eighth note or quaver

• double croche
• triple croche
• quadruple croche

• “croche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cocher

Feminine form of croc

croche m (oblique and nominative feminine singular croche)

1. hooked; curved

   un nez croche

   a hooked nose

croche ?

1. hook