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Brewer's: Crotchet
A whim; a fancy; a twist of the mind, like the crotch or crome of a stick. (See Crook.)
“The duke hath crotchets in him.”
Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, iii. 2.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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