croque

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croque m (plural croques)

1. Synonym of croque-monsieur

croque

1. inflection of croquer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɔke̝/

Perhaps from Latin crocus.

croque m (plural croques)

1. Digitalis purpurea, common foxglove, and each one of its flowers

   Synonyms: abeluria, alcroque, croquel, estalote, estraloque, milicroque, sanxoán

• alcroque
• croquel
• milicroque

From Old French crokier (“to slap, hit, strike”).

croque m (plural croques)

1. a blow on the head, with its sound

   Synonym: truque

2. a bump on the head

   Synonym: pote

   • 1932, Otero Pedrayo, Contos do camiño e da rúa, page 66:

     A moreniña fina, xentil, criada na miseria e na porcallada cun pai zapateiro borrachón, unha nai rifona, vendedora de carqueixas no portal, e un fato de irmáns enlarafuzados, sempre cheos de croques e mancaduras do frío e dos cantazos

     The thin, gentle little brunette, grown up in the misery and the filth with a drunkard father, shoemaker; a grumpy mother, seller of brushwood at the gates; and a bunch of dirty-faced brothers, always covered with bumps and injuries because of cold and pebbles

• crocar
• crocante
• croqueta

Perhaps borrowed from French coque.

Croques ("cockles")

croque m (plural croques)

1. cockle

   Synonym: berberecho

• “croque” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “croque (golpe)” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “croque (planta)” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “croque (molusco)” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “croque” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.