different between crouch vs croucher

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a?t??/
• Rhymes: -a?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English crouchen, crucchen, crouken (“to bend, crouch”), variant of croken (“to bend, crook”), from crok (“crook, hook”), from Old Norse krókr (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *kr?kaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“wicker, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind, weave”). Compare Middle Dutch kr?ken (“to crook, curl”). More at crook.

Verb

crouch (third-person singular simple present crouches, present participle crouching, simple past and past participle crouched)

1. (intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.

   We crouched behind the low wall until the squad of soldiers had passed by.
2. (intransitive) To bend servilely; to bow in reverence or humility.
   • 1816, William Wordsworth, Thanksgiving Ode

     a crouching purpose

Translations

Noun

crouch (plural crouches)

1. A bent or stooped position.

   The cat waited in a crouch, hidden behind the hedge.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English crouche, cruche, from Old English cr?? (“cross”). Compare Old Saxon kr?ci (“cross”), Old High German kr?zi (“cross”). Doublet of cross and crux.

Noun

crouch (plural crouches)

1. (obsolete) A cross.

Derived terms

• Crouch End

Verb

crouch (third-person singular simple present crouches, present participle crouching, simple past and past participle crouched)

1. (obsolete) To sign with the cross; bless.

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Anagrams

• Crochu

English

Etymology

crouch +? -er

Noun

croucher (plural crouchers)

1. Agent noun of crouch: one who crouches.
   • 1918?, Edwin L. Sabin, General Crook and the Fighting Apaches

     The little group examined the track, there was short muttering; then the crouchers relaxed and quit, and waited.