Word Meanings - CROTCHET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note. (more info) a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crochet, 1. A forked support; a

Additional info about word: CROTCHET

A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note. (more info) a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crochet, 1. A forked support; a crotch. The crotchets of their cot in columns rise. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CROTCHET)

• Vagary
• Whim
• fancy
• crotchet
• freak
• caprice

Related words: (words related to CROTCHET)

• FANCYWORK
  Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
• FANCYMONGER
  A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
• CROTCHETED
  Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. Harmar .
• FANCY
  fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. bhato shine. Cf. 1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the
• CROTCHETY
  Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
• FANCY-SICK
  Love-sick. Shak.
• FREAKISH
  Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness,
• FANCY-FREE
  Free from the power of love. "In maiden meditation, fancy- free." Shak.
• VAGARY
  1. A wandering or strolling. 2. Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. "The vagaries of a child." Spectator. They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. Milton.
• CAPRICE
  See FICKLENESS (more info) a fantastical goat leap), fr. L. caper, capra, goat. Cf Capriole, 1. An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
• FREAK
  To variegate; to checker; to streak. Freaked with many a mingled hue. Thomson.
• CROTCHET
  A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note. (more info) a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crochet, 1. A forked support; a
• CROTCHETINESS
  The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical. This belief in rightness is a kind of conscientiousness, and when it degenerates it becomes crotchetiness. J. Grote.
• FREAKING
  Freakish. Pepys.
• DISFANCY
  To dislike.
• INFANCY
  The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. (more info) 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their