Crouch vs Croucher - What's the difference?
crouch | croucher |
(obsolete) A cross.
(obsolete) To sign with the cross; bless.
To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with legs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
* Wordsworth
* Shakespeare
To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
A bent or stooped position.
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to crouch.
one who crouches.
* 1918? , Edwin L. Sabin, General Crook and the Fighting Apaches
* 1954 , Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings
As nouns the difference between crouch and croucher
is that crouch is a cross while croucher is Agent noun of crouch: one who crouches.As a verb crouch
is to sign with the cross; bless.crouch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crouche, cruche, from (etyl) .Noun
(es)Verb
(es)Etymology 2
From (etyl) crouchen, crucchen, . More at (l).Verb
- We crouched behind the low wall until the squad of soldiers had passed by.
- Archer and Jacob jumped up from behind the mound where they had been crouching with the intention of springing upon their mother unexpectedly, and they all began to walk slowly home.
- a crouching purpose
- Must I stand and crouch / Under your testy humour?
Noun
(es)- The cat waited in a crouch , hidden behind the hedge.
croucher
English
Noun
(en noun)- The little group examined the track, there was short muttering; then the crouchers relaxed and quit, and waited.
- His voice sounded unpleasantly close to the crouchers within the cubicle.