crochet

From French crochet, from Middle French crochet, from Old French crochet, crokét (“curved instrument, hook”), diminutive of Old French croc (“hook”), from Old Frankish *krōk (“hook”) or from Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”), both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“tracery, basket, twist”). Cognate with Middle English crōc (“crook, hook”), Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”). Compare crotchet. More at crook, crooked.

• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹoʊˈʃeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

crochet (plural crochets)

1. Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.
2. A certain crest of enamel on the molar teeth of some rhinoceros.

crochet (third-person singular simple present crochets, present participle crocheting, simple past and past participle crocheted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle; to make interlocking loops of thread.

From croc +‎ -et with palatalization.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔ.ʃɛ/

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crochet m (plural crochets)

1. hook (rod bent into a curved shape)
2. (typography) square bracket
3. fang (of snake)
4. crochet
5. (boxing) hook

• au crochet de
• crocheter

• Portuguese: colchete

• “crochet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

crochet m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of crachet

• croché, crochê

Borrowed from French crochet.

crochet m (plural crochets)

1. (sewing) crochet (needlework made by looping thread)

crochet m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of croché