Crotchet is a related term of fickleness.
As nouns the difference between crotchet and fickleness
is that
crotchet is (music) a musical note one beat long in 4/4 time while
fickleness is the quality of being fickle.
As a verb crotchet
is to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet.
crotchet Noun
( en noun)
(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook).
(archaic) a whim or a fancy
* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
- Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets , thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms
* De Quincey
- He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
A forked support; a crotch.
* Dryden
- The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
(military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
(military) 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.
(printing) A bracket.
Synonyms
* (musical note) quarter note (US)
Derived terms
* crotchety
Verb
( en verb)
to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet
(obsolete) to play music in measured time
- (Donne)
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==Jèrriais==
Noun
(m)
(punctuation) bracket
Derived terms
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fickleness English
Noun
The quality of being fickle.
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