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Cricket
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- 1 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.
- 2 A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. uncountable
- 3 A wooden footstool. dialectal
"Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob"
- 4 a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs wordnet
- 5 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. US, humorous, in-plural, slang
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- 6 An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. British, uncountable
"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. […]"
- 7 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.
- 8 leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together wordnet
- 9 A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
- 10 A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). uncountable
- 11 An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. slang
- 1 To play the game of cricket. intransitive, rare
"Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship."
- 2 play cricket wordnet
Etymology
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.
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).
The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).
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