English-Thai Dictionary

crotchet

N ตะขอ  hook ta-kor

 

crotchety

ADJ อารมณ์เสีย ง่าย  irritable ar-rom-sia-ngai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CROTCHET

n.[See Crook. ] 1. In printing, a hook including words, a sentence or a passage distinguished form the rest, thus [ ].
2. In music, a note or character, equal in time to half a minim, and double of a quaver.
3. A piece of wood resembling a fork, used as a support in building.
4. A peculiar turn of the mind; a whim, or fancy; a perverse conceit.
All the devices and crotchets of new inventions.

 

CROTCHETED

a.Marked with crotchets.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CROTCHET

Crotch "et (krch "t; 224 ), n. Etym: [F. crochet, prop. , a little hook, a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crochet, Crocket, Crosier. ]

 

1. A forked support; a crotch. The crotchets of their cot in columns rise. Dryden.

 

2. (Mus. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

3. (Fort. )

 

Defn: An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

 

4. (Mil. )

 

Defn: The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.

 

5. (Print. )

 

Defn: A bracket. See Bracket.

 

6. (Med. )

 

Defn: An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison.

 

7. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit. He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man. De Quincey.

 

CROTCHET

CROTCHET Crotch "et, v. i.

 

Defn: To play music in measured time. [Obs. ] Donne.

 

CROTCHETED

CROTCHETED Crotch "et *ed, a.

 

Defn: Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. Harmar (1587 ).

 

CROTCHETINESS

CROTCHETINESS Crotch "et *i *ness (krch "t--ns ), n.

 

Defn: 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.

 

CROTCHETY

CROTCHETY Crotch "et *y (krch "t- ), a.

 

Defn: Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

crotchet

crotch et |ˈkräCHət ˈkrɑtʃət | ▶noun 1 Music chiefly Brit. a quarter note. 2 a perverse or unfounded belief or notion: the natural crotchets of inveterate bachelors. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘hook ’): from Old French crochet, diminutive of croc ‘hook, ’ from Old Norse krókr.

 

crotchety

crotch et y |ˈkräCHətē ˈkrɑtʃədi | ▶adjective irritable: he was tired and crotchety. DERIVATIVES crotch et i ness noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from of crotchet + -y 1 .

 

Oxford Dictionary

crotchet

crotchet |ˈkrɒtʃɪt | ▶noun 1 Music, Brit. a note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve or half a minim, represented by a large solid dot with a plain stem. Also called quarter note. 2 a perverse or unfounded belief or notion: the natural crotchets of inveterate bachelors. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘hook ’): from Old French crochet, diminutive of croc ‘hook ’, from Old Norse krókr.

 

crotchety

crot |chety |ˈkrɒtʃɪti | ▶adjective irritable: he was tired and crotchety. DERIVATIVES crotchetiness noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from crotchet ( sense 2 ) + -y 1 .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

crotchety

crotchety adjective it's the dreadful arthritis that has made him so crotchety: bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, cantankerous, short-tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-natured, cross-grained, peevish, cross, fractious, pettish, waspish, crabbed, crabby, crusty, prickly, touchy, snappish, snappy, cranky, ornery. ANTONYMS good-humored.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

crotchet

crotchet noun the natural crotchets of inveterate bachelors: whim, whimsy, fancy, fad, vagary, notion, conceit, caprice, kink, twist, freak, fetish, passion, bent, foible, quirk, eccentricity, idiosyncrasy; French idée fixe; informal hang-up, thing; archaic megrim; rare singularity.

 

crotchety

crotchety adjective he was one of those crotchety old people who give ageing a bad name. See bad-tempered.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

crotchet

crotch et /krɑ́tʃət |krɔ́tʃ -/名詞 C ｟英 ｠1 4分音符 (｟米 ｠quarter note ).2 とっぴな考え, 奇想 .

 

crotchety

crotch et y /krɑ́tʃəti |krɔ́tʃ -/形容詞 ｟くだけて ｠〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗気難しい, 怒りっぽい 〈老人など 〉; 風変わりな 〈考えなど 〉.