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
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
The advance in good temper of Gryll Grange, even upon Crotchet Castle itself, is denied by no one.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
In 1702, we find him at Derby, working as a mechanic with one Mr. Crotchet.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel
