crotchet

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The crocodile is voiced by Crotchet Fiona, a rapper from Barcelona whom Barki met on Instagram and who is originally from Equatorial Guinea and has a chipper, Spanish-inflected accent.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021

Crotchet Castle and Nightmare Abbey, a goodnatured, witty caricature of Shelley as Scythrop dowry, the baffled lover, are probably the best of Peacock and least likely to bog the reader in temporary verbal swamps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crotchet, kroch′et, n. a hook: a note in music, equal to half a minim, : a crooked or perverse fancy: a whim, or conceit.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

After the Crotchet has passed beyond and below the Substance, that obstructs the Passage, it is drawn up again, and hooks up with it and extracts that Impediment to swallowing.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

I understand the owner to be a Mr. Crotchet.

From Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Thomas Love