Note 45 — Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs.

The Martinique dialect gives both oti and outi for “où”: “where.” Mr. Bigelow gives the curious spelling croquez. The word is certainly derived from the French, accrocher. In Louisiana Creole we always say ’croché for “hang up.” I doubt the correctness of the Haytian spelling as here given: for the French word croquer (“to devour,” “gobble up,” “pilfer,” etc.) has its Creole counterpart; and the soft ch is never, so far as I can learn, changed into the k or g sound in the patois.