Crotchet - English meaning

adjective

Sharply curved or having an angle.

Usage examples:

A piece of bent wire

noun

Past and past participle of bend1.

noun

A stiff grass which is used for lawns and is a component of pasture and hay grasses.

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The grasses used may be native to the area or specially introduced species such as rye grass, fescu…

noun

A sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behaviour.

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The caprices of the electorate

noun

(the quality of often having) a sudden and usually silly wish to have or do something, or a sudden and silly change of mind or behaviour

Usage examples:

The $300 million palace was built to satisfy the caprice of one man.

noun

Excessive pride in oneself.

Usage examples:

He was puffed up with conceit

noun

The habit or attitude of thinking yourself better than others, even when there is no reason to think so

Usage examples:

He’s a great musician, and not conceited at all.

noun

The state of being too proud of yourself and your actions

Usage examples:

The conceit of that man is incredible!

noun

The quality of being eccentric.

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The eccentricity of his views

noun

The state of being eccentric

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His eccentricity now extends to never washing or changing his clothes., her eccentricities get stra…

noun

An eccentric action

Usage examples:

Her eccentricities get stranger by the day.

noun

An intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived; a craze.

Usage examples:

Some regard green politics as no more than the latest fad

abbreviation

Flavin adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme derived from riboflavin and important in various metabolic reactions.

noun

A style or activity that suddenly becomes popular but which usually does not stay popular for very long

Usage examples:

He thought computers would be just a fad.

adjective

Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Usage examples:

The furniture was very fancy

verb

Feel a desire or liking for.

Usage examples:

Do you fancy a drink?

noun

A superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction.

Usage examples:

This was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by

noun

A form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, item of clothing, part of the body, etc.

Usage examples:

A man with a fetish for surgical masks

noun

An activity or object that someone is interested in to an extreme degree and that the person gives an unreasonable amount of time or thought to

Usage examples:

He had a fetish about clothes.

noun

A sexual interest in an object or a part of the body other than the sexual organs

Usage examples:

A rubber/foot fetish, fetish for he has a fetish for high heels., fetish about uk it is possible to…

noun

A minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character.

Usage examples:

They have to tolerate each other's little foibles

phrase

A minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character

noun

A small fault or foolish habit

Usage examples:

We all have our little foibles.

noun

A very unusual and unexpected event or situation.

Usage examples:

The teacher says the accident was a total freak

verb

Behave or cause to behave in a wild and irrational way, typically because of the effects of extreme emotion or drugs.

Usage examples:

He freaked out and smashed the place up

adjective

Extremely unusual or unlikely

Usage examples:

She died in a freak automobile accident., a freak midsummer hailstorm caught us all by surprise., m…

noun

A mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual.

Usage examples:

One of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first

noun

A sharp twist or curve in something that is otherwise straight.

Usage examples:

A kink in the road

verb

Form or cause to form a sharp twist or curve.

Usage examples:

The river kinks violently in a right angle

noun

A sharp twist or bend in something such as a wire or rope

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There was a kink in the hose and the water wouldn’t come through., the system will work fine once w…

noun

Depression; low spirits.

Usage examples:

Exercise could banish most megrims

noun

A deep-water flatfish of the european atlantic coast.

Usage examples:

Even though this rig is especially good for gurnards, it also proves superbly successful for dabs, …

noun

A conception of or belief about something.

Usage examples:

Children have different notions about the roles of their parents

noun

A belief or idea

Usage examples:

Nast helped form the american notion of santa claus.

noun

Strong and barely controllable emotion.

Usage examples:

A man of impetuous passion

noun

A peculiar aspect of a person's character or behaviour.

Usage examples:

They accepted her attitude as one of her little quirks

verb

(with reference to a person's mouth or eyebrow) move or twist suddenly, especially to express surprise or amusement.

Usage examples:

His lips quirked disbelievingly

noun

An unusual habit or type of behavior, or something that is strange and unexpected

Usage examples:

A personality quirk, it’s just one of the quirks of living there., a quirky, offbeat sense of humor

noun

The state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular.

Usage examples:

He believed in the singularity of all cultures

noun

An object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to.

Usage examples:

Look at that metal rail thing over there

A separate and self-contained entity

noun

A device, product, or part of nature that is not named

Usage examples:

There’s a new thing that seals plastic bags., there are some nice things in the stores on sale righ…

verb

Form into a bent, curling, or distorted shape.

Usage examples:

A strip of metal is twisted to form a hollow tube

noun

An act of twisting something around a stationary point.

Usage examples:

The taps needed a single twist to turn them on

verb

Cause an object to assume a curved or distorted shape

noun

An unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or in someone's behaviour.

Usage examples:

The vagaries of the weather

noun

A sudden desire or change of mind, especially one that is unusual or unexplained.

Usage examples:

She bought it on a whim

noun

Playfully quaint or fanciful behaviour or humour.

Usage examples:

The film is an awkward blend of whimsy and moralizing

noun

Something playful and amusing

Usage examples:

[ u ] the second book is as full of happy whimsy as the first.