Also crotcheter. [f. CROTCHET sb.1 + -EER.] A person with a crotchet; esp. one who pushes or obtrudes his crotchets in politics, etc.
1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 220. As sometimes a brighter orb ’lumines the sphere, So Busby o’er crotcheteers reigns overseer.
1856. Tait’s Mag., XXIII. 276. Attempts at interference have been hinted at by reckless crotcheters.
1887. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., vi. 242. A very early example of the reckless violence of private crotcheteers.
