Crotchet in a sentence as a noun

I had a girlfriend once crotchet a hat for me.

Thank you for making me realize I'm not the only crotchety old bastard who bitches and moans about this!

So in this metaphor, are you the crotchety old man at the mall passing judgement against the teenage girls?

Thanks, that explains it, though it does seem somewhat odd to my UK based musical training, where we regard a crotchet as a whole note...

Pinboard dot com is run by a hilarious, crotchety Linux guy who has been around forever.

Did you ever have a crotchety senior programmer, after being shown a webapp's source code, say "this is terrible.

I find it useful to read articles by someone who will translate from hipster to crotchety-unix-grey-beard for me.

Most marketing isn't targeted at the niche of crotchety, critical, cynical HN readers.

It's the arrogance and stupidity of youth facing the crotchety crankiness of experience.

Maybe I qualify a a crotchety neophyte?The set of applications I now use has changed quite a lot recently, and now I find myself reevaluating Ubuntu.

Let's hope as a crotchety old man that nobody ever decides to show you what it's like when you're stuck in a nursing home where no one believes or cares to help you because of some stupid reason like that it should toughen you up.

The IT industry is full of crotchety neckbeards with chips on their shoulders who need to be tiptoed around, generally with good reason because when others participate in the work they have created, they feel devalued and lash out.

I guess this is just a sign that I am getting crotchety, but headlines like this just anger me:Why we love/like X, And why you should, tooMy immediate reaction is always something along the lines of, don't presume to tell me why I should like anything.

Between this massive healthcare **** up, the spying, the shutdown, and all the rest that doesn't need mentioning, I am basically becoming a crotchety old conservative who says formulaic things like: "Government can't do anything right"; "Governments never give up power once you let them have it".

It's being able to watch talents you'd never normally be interested in, but who prove to be genuinely entertaining, even if you don't know what a quarter note from a crotchet, and it's amazing to realize these people are gaining fame in such a huge market, despite being incredibly niche.

Crotchet definitions

noun

a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

See also: hook

noun

a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note

noun

a strange attitude or habit

See also: oddity queerness quirk quirkiness

noun

a small tool or hooklike implement