cricket
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cricket¹
- /ˈkɹɪkɪt/ Australia, US, UK
- /ˈkɾɪkɪt/ Scotland, Wales
- /ˈkɹək.kət/ New Zealand
- /ˈkrɪ(k).keʈ/ India
- /krɪˈkeʈ/ India
Rhymes with -ɪkɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin.
Compare Dutch kriek (“cricket”), Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.
noun crickets · crecket
- An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
- In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
- A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
- An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
cricket²
- /ˈkɹɪkɪt/ Australia, US, UK
- /ˈkɾɪkɪt/ Scotland, Wales
- /ˈkɹək.kət/ New Zealand
- /ˈkrɪ(k).keʈ/ India
- /krɪˈkeʈ/ India
Rhymes with -ɪkɪt
Where it comes from
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).
noun
- A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. Look, that's a lovely sound, isn't it? The bat against the ball. Very English. Oh, yes, long summer afternoons spent in peace and harmony. I always say that, if Jesus had played a sport, I'm sure it would have been cricket.
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An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […]
Opposite: not cricket
- A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
verb crickets · cricketing · cricketed
- To play the game of cricket. Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.
cricket³
- /ˈkɹɪkɪt/ Australia, US, UK
- /ˈkɾɪkɪt/ Scotland, Wales
- /ˈkɹək.kət/ New Zealand
- /ˈkrɪ(k).keʈ/ India
- /krɪˈkeʈ/ India
Rhymes with -ɪkɪt
Where it comes from
The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).
noun crickets · crecket · cracket
- A wooden footstool. Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob
- A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: grasshopper, blood, predator, golly, predatory, match, hockey, bushcricket, katydid, locust, gryllid, orthopteran, weta, king cricket, field cricket, grylline
Translations
Every language
noun insect
| Español | grillo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 귀뚜라미 gwitturami |
| 日本語 | コオロギ kōrogi, 蟋蟀 kōrogi |
| 中文 | 蟋蟀 xīshuài |
| हिन्दी | झींगुर jhīṅgur, झीँगुर jhī̃gur |
| Português | grilo |
| Français | grillon, cri-cri, criquet |
| Deutsch | Grille |
| Italiano | grillo |
| Ελληνικά | γρύλος grýlos, τριζόνι trizóni |
| Română | greier |
| Русский | сверчо́к sverčók |
| Tiếng Việt | dế |
| العربية | جُدْجُد judjud, صُرْصُر ṣurṣur, صُرْصُور ṣurṣūr |
| עברית | צְרָצַר m צַרְצוּר tsratsár |
noun game
| Español | críquet, cricket |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 크리켓 keuriket |
| 日本語 | クリケット kuriketto |
| 中文 | 板球 bǎnqiú |
| हिन्दी | क्रिकेट krikeṭ, वल्लकन्दुक vallakanduk, गेंद-बल्ला gend-ballā |
| Kiswahili | kriketi |
| Português | críquete |
| Français | cricket |
| Deutsch | Cricket, Kricket |
| Italiano | cricket |
| Ελληνικά | κρίκετ kríket |
| Română | crichet |
| Русский | кри́кет kríket |
| Tiếng Việt | crích-kê, bóng gậy |
| العربية | كْرِيكِت krikit |
| עברית | קְרִיקֶט kriket |
noun fair and sportsmanlike act
| Italiano | fair play |
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