Noun: crockard
| Singular | crockard |
| Plural | crockards |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like crockard
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English crocard, from Anglo-Norman crocard/Old French crokard, of uncertain origin. Possibilities include:
2. * that it is from croc (“hook”), from a Scandinavian language (compare Old Norse krókr (“hook”)) + -ard.
3. * that it is related to croquier (“break in pieces”).
4. * that it is a diminutive of Middle English crok (“a crock, a potsherd”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
krókr', Middle English Nouns '
crok'.