Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets, thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms.
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook)
A crotchet is a musical note that has a time value equal to two quavers. a musical note which continues for a quarter of the length of a semibreve American Equivalent: quarter note minim, quaver quaver
[ 'krä-ch&t ] (noun.) 14th century. From Old French crochet (‘small hook’), from croc (with diminutive suffix -et), from Old Norse krókr (‘hook’). The musical note was named so because of a small hook on its stem in black notation (in modern notation this hook is on the quaver/eighth note).