Difference between needlework-crotchet and crotchet
Definitions
noun
- a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
- a strange attitude or habit
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a small tool or hooklike implement
Examples
Nor does he discuss another dialectic, between the Scherzo's anapestic and amphibrach crotchet groups, sublated after the Trio in that startling alla breve succession of equal minims; nor the hunting topos of the Trio.
She is good reading always, however much we may sometimes pish and pshaw at the untimely poppings-in of the platitudes and crotchets (for he was that most abominable of things, a platitudinous crotcheteer) of Richard her father.
Now, I'm supposed to be pithy in this column, full of cute and snide comments about my Midwestern family, how they don't get it, how they're getting old and crotchety.
