[ 'krɒtʃɪt ]
■ noun
1》 Music, Brit. a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve or half a minim, represented by a large solid dot with a plain stem.
2》 a perverse or unfounded belief or notion.
Origin
ME (in the sense 'hook'): from OFr. crochet , dimin. of croc , from ON krókr .