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croche

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Borrowed from Middle French croche, equivalent to English 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”).

noun croches

obsolete A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler, or as the predevelopmental stage of the antler.

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@misc{croche_2026,
  title = {croche},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/croche},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}