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91you can drive out nature with a pitchfork, but she keeps on coming back — Originally HORACE Epistles I. x. 24 naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret, you may drive out nature with a pitchfork, but she will always return. 1539 R. TAVERNER tr. Erasmus’ Adages 44 Thurst out nature wyth a croche [staff], yet woll she …
92crook — [12] A crook ‘criminal’ is almost literally a ‘bent’ person. The underlying meaning of the word is ‘bend, curve, hook’, as can be seen in other applications such as ‘shepherd’s staff with a crooked end’, and particularly in the derivative crooked …
93croquet — [19] Old Norse krókr ‘hook’ (source of English crook) was borrowed into Old French as croc. This formed the basis of a diminutive, crochet, literally ‘little hook’, which has passed into English in various guises over the centuries. First to… …
94queerness — noun 1. a strange attitude or habit • Syn: ↑oddity, ↑quirk, ↑quirkiness, ↑crotchet • Derivationally related forms: ↑crotchety (for: ↑crotchet), ↑ …
95quirkiness — noun a strange attitude or habit • Syn: ↑oddity, ↑queerness, ↑quirk, ↑crotchet • Derivationally related forms: ↑crotchety (for: ↑crotchet), ↑quirky …
96crotcheteer — ˌkrachəˈti(ə)r noun ( s) Etymology: crotchet (I) (whim) + eer : one who has a crotchet or who thrusts his crotchets on others …
97cro|chet´er — cro|chet «kroh SHAY», verb, cheted « SHAYD», chet|ing « SHAY ihng», noun. –v.t., v.i. to make wool or cotton thread into sweaters, shawls, and other things in a way somewhat like knitting, but using only one needle, with a hooked end, called a… …
98cro|chet — «kroh SHAY», verb, cheted « SHAYD», chet|ing « SHAY ihng», noun. –v.t., v.i. to make wool or cotton thread into sweaters, shawls, and other things in a way somewhat like knitting, but using only one needle, with a hooked end, called a crochet… …
99crock|et — «KROK iht», noun. 1. a carved ornament, usually made to resemble foliage, along the edges of a spire, pinnacle, gable, or other sloping part of a building. 2. a snag at the end of a stag s horn. ╂[< Anglo French croket, Old French crochet. See …
100cro|quet — «kroh KAY; especially British KROH kay, kee», noun, verb, queted « KAYD», quet|ing « KAY ihng». –n. 1. an outdoor game played by using mallets to knock wooden balls through small wire arches, called wickets, set in the ground. A croquet course is …
