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
You are a man of taste, Mr. Crotchet.
From Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Thomas Love
The philanthropist walked off from the country gentleman, and proceeded to hold forth to young Crotchet, who stood silent, as one who listens, but in reality without hearing a syllable.
From Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Thomas Love
In saying this I do not refer to the long period—exactly a generation in the conventional sense—which intervened between Crotchet Castle of 1831 and this of 1861.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
