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crotcheted

crotcheted is the simple past and past participle of crotchet.

Meaning of crotchet

Verb

crotchet (third-person singular simple present crotchets, present participle crotcheting, simple past and past participle crotcheted)

  1. (obsolete) to play music in measured time
    • The nimblest crotcheting musiciana. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC

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Adjective

crotcheted (comparative more crotcheted, superlative most crotcheted)

  1. crotchety; whimsical or eccentric

Forms of crotcheted

comparativemore crotcheted
superlativemost crotcheted

Questions about crotcheted

What does crotcheted mean?
Crotcheted means crotchety; whimsical or eccentric.
What is crotcheted the simple past and past participle of?
Crotcheted is the simple past and past participle of crotchet.
What part of speech is crotcheted?
Crotcheted is an adjective.

Words near crotcheted in the dictionary

  1. crotches
  2. crotches down
  3. crotchet
  4. crotchet rest
  5. crotchet rests
  6. crotcheted
  7. crotcheteer
  8. crotcheteers
  9. crotchetier
  10. crotchetiest
  11. crotchetily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crotcheted (page history and authors); crotchet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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