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
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Noun
(m)
(punctuation) bracket
Derived terms
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prank English
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.
*, II.4.2.ii:
- Hercules, after all his mad pranks upon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of hellebor, which an Antieyrian administered unto him.
A practical joke or mischievous trick.
* Shakespeare
- His pranks have been too broad to bear with.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
- The harpies played their accustomed pranks .
- Pranks may be funny, but remember that some people are aggressive.
- He pulled a gruesome prank on his sister.
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* prankish
* pranksome
* prankster
Verb
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
* Spenser
- In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank .
* 1748 , , B:II
- And there a Sea?on atween June and May,
- Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrown'd,
- A li?tle?s Climate made, where, Sooth to ?ay,
- No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play.
* 1880 , For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli , lines 2–3
- ''Flora, wanton-eyed
- ''For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:
To make ostentatious show.
* M. Arnold
- White houses prank where once were huts.
To perform a practical joke on; to trick.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 13, author=Karen Crouse, title=Still Invitation Only, but Jets Widen Door for Camp, work=New York Times citation
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(slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up
- Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.
- I don't have your number in my phone, can you prank me?
Synonyms
(call and promptly hang up) missed call, missed-call
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