croquette

Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution).

• enPR: krō-kĕt' IPA^(key): /kɹoʊˈkɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

croquette (plural croquettes)

1. (cooking) Minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

• croquet

• coquetter

From croquer (“to crunch”) +‎ -ette, 18th c.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔ.kɛt/

croquette f (plural croquettes)

1. (cooking) croquette (minced, cooked food which is then deep-fried)
2. (by extension) kibble (grain for use as animal feed)
3. (informal, slightly offensive) a beanpole (a skinny and unmuscular person)

• Dutch: kroket
• English: croquette
• German: Krokette
• Portuguese: croquete
• Spanish: croqueta

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