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cricket

See also: crickets#Etymology 1 and Cricket

EnglishEdit

WOTD – 16 May 2008
 
  cricket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

PronunciationEdit

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪkɪt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Etymology 1Edit

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.

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NounEdit

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. 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.
  5. (aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
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Etymology 2Edit

 
cricket (1)

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

NounEdit

cricket (uncountable)

  2. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
  3. (chiefly Britain, usually in negative constructions) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
    Antonym: not cricket
    • 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. […]
  4. A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
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VerbEdit

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 3Edit

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

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NounEdit

cricket (plural crickets)

  1. (dialectal) A wooden footstool.
    • 1746, Tim Bobbin, A View of the Lancashire Dialect; by Way of Dialogue, Manchester: Josehp Harrop, page 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

ReferencesEdit

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

DutchEdit

 
Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English cricket.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

cricket n (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English cricket.

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NounEdit

cricket m (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English cricket.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

cricket m (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

Further readingEdit

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

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

cricket m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of críquet

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SwedishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English cricket.

NounEdit

cricket c (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cricket 
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Indefinite Definite
Nominative cricket cricketen — —
Genitive crickets cricketens — —

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