croquante, n.f., crisp-tart; almond-cake. à la croque-au-sel, adv., with salt only; (fig.) as easily as possible.
croque-abeilles, n.m., titmouse.
croque en bouche, n.m., crisp sweetmeat; crisp cake.
☉croque-lardon, n.m.f., (—-—s) lick-spittle; (l.ex.) lick-dish, spunger; dinner-hunter.
croque-mitaine, n.m., (—-—s) old bogey, black bogey, bugbear.
croque-mort, n.m., (—-—s) undertaker’s man.
croque-note, n.m., (—-—s) sorry musician, scraper, strummer, crochet-monger.
croquer, v.n., to crackle between the teeth, to craunch, to scrunch. Être gentil à —; to be as pretty as you like.
croquer, v.a., to craunch; to devour, to eat hastily; to make the first sketch or rough draught of a drawing or picture, to sketch; to filch, to pilfer; (nav.) to hook or grapple anything. Il n’a fait que — ce poème; he has only written a sketch of the poem. — le marmot; to dance attendance.
croque-sol, n.m., (—-—s). V. croque-note.