cricket

See also: crickets and Cricket

English

WOTD – 16 May 2008

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪkɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Etymology 1

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, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną, 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.

Alternative forms

  • crecket (dialectal and archaic)

Noun

cricket (plural crickets)

  2. 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.
    1. (US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
  3. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
  4. (aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
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extant orders of insects in English

Etymology 2

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).[1]

Noun

cricket (uncountable)

  • (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
    1. (chiefly British, chiefly in the negative) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
      Antonym: not cricket Example: Jimmy played a lot of Test cricket. Tom played county cricket for Warwickshire. He grew up playing cricket with his dad. The cricket fans came to watch the match. He bowled 33 overs in the cricket match against New Zealand, taking 5/68.
      • 1954, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 7, page 81:
        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. […]
    2. A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
    Derived terms
    Descendants
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    See also
    • Appendix:Glossary of cricket
    Further reading

    Verb

    cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)

    1. (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
      • 1891 May 27, "A Cricketer in Low Circumstances", The Evening News (Sydney); cited in "What do we know about the first Test cricketer?", ESPNcricinfo, 7 August 2016
        Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living?
        Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.
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    Etymology 3

    The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).[2]

    Alternative forms

    • crecket, cracket

    Noun

    cricket (plural crickets)

    1. (dialectal) A wooden footstool.
      • 1746, Tim Bobbin, A View of the Lancashire Dialect; by Way of Dialogue, Manchester: Josehp Harrop, pages 31 in the 6th edition 1757, 13–14 in the 1797 edition:
        Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob
    2. 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.
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    References

    1. ^ Chris Mason (2 March 2009) “Cricket 'was invented in Belgium'”, in BBC News‎[1]
    2. ^ “cricket”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000., where 10+ other quotes are given.

    Basque

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /kriket/ [kri.ket̪]
    • Rhymes: -iket, -et

    Noun

    cricket inan

    1. alternative spelling of kriket

    Declension

    Declension of cricket (inanimate, singular only, ending in consonant)
    indefinite singular
    absolutive cricket cricket-a
    ergative — cricket-ak
    dative — cricket-ari
    genitive — cricket-aren
    comitative — cricket-arekin
    causative — cricket-arengatik
    benefactive — cricket-arentzat
    instrumental cricket-ez cricket-az
    inessive — cricket-ean
    locative — —
    allative — —
    terminative — —
    directive — —
    destinative — —
    ablative — —
    partitive cricket-ik —
    prolative cricket-tzat —

    Further reading

    • “cricket”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

    Dutch

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English cricket.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkrɪ.kət/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: cric‧ket

    Noun

    cricket n (uncountable)

    1. cricket (sport)

    Derived terms

    French

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English cricket.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /kʁi.kɛt/

    Noun

    cricket m (uncountable)

    1. cricket (sport)

    Further reading

    Italian

    Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English cricket.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkri.ket/
    • Rhymes: -iket
    • Hyphenation: crìc‧ket

    Noun

    cricket m (uncountable)

    1. cricket (sport)

    Further reading

    • cricket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

    Spanish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkɾiket/ [ˈkɾi.ket̪]
    • Rhymes: -iket
    • Syllabification: cric‧ket

    Noun

    cricket m (uncountable)

    1. alternative spelling of críquet

    Further reading

    Swedish

    Alternative forms

    • kricket (less common)

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English cricket.

    Noun

    cricket c (uncountable)

    1. (sports) cricket

    Declension

    Declension of cricket
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite cricket crickets
    definite cricketen cricketens
    plural indefinite — —
    definite — —

    Derived terms

    See also

    References

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