cricket

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English[edit]

WOTD – 16 May 2008
cricket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Etymology 1[edit]

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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Noun[edit]

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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Etymology 2[edit]

cricket (1)

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

Noun[edit]

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 British, 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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Verb[edit]

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[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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

Basque[edit]

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Noun[edit]

cricket inan

  1. Alternative spelling of kriket

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

  • "cricket" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Dutch[edit]

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English cricket.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

cricket n (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English cricket.

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cricket m (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English cricket.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

cricket m (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

Further reading[edit]

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

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

cricket m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of críquet

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Swedish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English cricket.

Noun[edit]

cricket c (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

Declension[edit]

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

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