croquet
pronunciation
How to pronounce croquet in British English:
UK [ ˈkrəʊkeɪ]
How to pronounce croquet in American English:
US [ kroʊˈkeɪ]
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- Noun:
- a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg
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- Verb:
- drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the opponent's ball"
- play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops
Word Origin
- croquet
- croquet: [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 arrive was crotchet [14], applied to musical notes from their hooked shape. Crocket ‘curling ornamental device’ followed in the 17th century, via the Old Northern French variant croquet. Crochet itself, in the ‘knitting’ sense, arrived in the 19th century.And in the mid 19th century croquet, apparently a dialectal variant of French crochet, was applied to the lawn game with balls and mallets newly introduced from Ireland to Britain. Old French croc was also the ancestor of encroach.=> crook, crotchet, encroach, lacrosse
- croquet (n.)
- 1858, from Northern French dialect croquet "hockey stick," from Old North French "shepherd's crook," from Old French croc (12c.), from Old Norse krokr "hook" (see crook). Game originated in Brittany, popularized in Ireland c. 1830, England c. 1850, where it was very popular until 1872.
Example
- 1. The queen turned to alice . " Can you play croquet ? "
- 2. Along the boulevards and highways of muscat , the medians were as lush as croquet lawns .
- 3. If they were here now , my kids would be over there with the others , playing croquet .
- 4. While croquet was given the heave-ho after the paris games in 1900 , its american cousin " roque " found its way onto the 1904 olympic roster in st. louis .
- 5. The game helped pad the u. s. 's medal count but , in the end , roque followed in the footsteps of croquet and was dropped before the london games in 1908 .