cricket

See also Cricket

English

WOTD - 16 May 2008    

Wikipedia Wikipedia

An Australian brown field cricket

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈkrɪk.ɪt/, SAMPA: /"krIk.It/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Etymology 1

From Old French criquet, from criquer (“to make a cracking sound”).

Noun

cricket (plural crickets)

1. An insect in the order Orthoptera that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
2. A wooden footstool.
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. (US slang, in the plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.

Derived terms

• chirpy as a cricket
• house cricket
• mole cricket
• Mormon cricket

Translations

insect

Afrikaans: krieket (af) Albanian: bulkth (sq) m. Armenian: ծղրիդ (hy) (çġrid) Basque: kilker (eu) Bosnian: cvrčak (bs) m. Bulgarian: щурец (bg) m. Catalan: grill (ca) m. Chamicuro: c̈ho'kota Chinese: 蟋蟀 (xīshuài) Croatian: cvrčak (hr) m. Czech: cvrček (cs) m. Dutch: krekel (nl) m. Finnish: laulukaskas (fi) French: grillon (fr) m., cri-cri (fr) m., criquet (fr) m. German: Grille (de) f. Greek: γρύλος (el) (grýlos) m. Hebrew: צַרְצוּר (tzartzúr) m. Hungarian: tücsök (hu) Icelandic: krybba (is) f. Irish: cruicéad (ga) m. Italian: grillo (it) m. Japanese: 蟋蟀 (コオロギ, kōrogi) Korean: 귀뚜라미 (gwitturami) Kurdish: Sorani: کوله (ku) (kolla)

Latin: gryllus (la) m. Latvian: circenis (lv) m. Lithuanian: svirplys (lt) m. Luxembourgish: Grill (lb) f. Macedonian: штурец (mk) (štúrec) m. Maltese: grillu (mt) m. Navajo: nahakʼízii Persian: جیرجیرک (fa) (jirjirak) Polish: świerszcz (pl) m. Portuguese: grilo (pt) m. Romanian: greier (ro) m. Russian: сверчок (ru) (sverčók) m. Scottish Gaelic: greollan (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: цврчак (sh) m. Roman: cvrčak (sh) m. Sicilian: griddu (scn) m. , ariddu m. Slovak: svrček (sk) m., kriket (sk) m. Slovene: čriček (sl) m., cvrček (sl) m. Spanish: grillo (es) m. Swedish: syrsa (sv) c. Thai: จิ้งหรีด (th) (jingreet) Ukrainian: цвіркун (uk) m. Vietnamese: con dế (vi) Welsh: criced (cy) m.

a wooden footstool

Albanian: fron

Hungarian: sámli (hu)

Etymology 2

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met 'with' de 'the' krik ketsen 'to ricochet', i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[1]

People playing cricket

Noun

cricket (uncountable)

1. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
2. (chiefly UK) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.

   That player's foul wasn't cricket!

Usage notes

The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is normally used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage.

Antonyms

• (An act that is fair and sportsmanlike): not cricket

Translations

game

Albanian: kriket (sq) Arabic: كريكت (ar) (krikit) m. Armenian: կրիկետ (hy) (kriket) Bulgarian: крикет (bg) m. Catalan: criquet (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 板球 (cmn) (bǎnqiú) Czech: kriket (cs) m. Dutch: cricket (nl) n. Finnish: kriketti (fi) French: cricket (fr) m. German: Cricket (de) n., Kricket (de) n. Greek: κρίκετ (el) (kríket) n. Gujarati: ક્રિકેટ (gu) (krikeṭ) Hebrew: קְרִיקֶט (he) (qryqet') Hindi: क्रिकेट (hi) (krikeṭ) m. Hungarian: krikett (hu) Irish: cruicéad (ga) m. Italian: cricket (it) m. Japanese: クリケット (ja) (kuriketto)

Korean: 크리켓 (ko) (keuriket) Luxembourgish: Cricket (lb) m. Macedonian: крикет (mk) (kríket) m. Marathi: क्रिकेट (mr) (krikeṭ) Norwegian: cricket (no) m. Persian: کریکت (fa) (kriket) Polish: krykiet (pl) m. Portuguese: críquete (pt) m. Romanian: crichet (ro) n. Russian: крикет (ru) (kríket) m. Scottish Gaelic: craigear (gd) m., criogaid (gd) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: крикет (sh) m. Roman: kriket (sh) m. Spanish: críquet (es) m., cricket (es) m. Swahili: kriketi (sw) Swedish: cricket (sv) c., kricket (sv) c. Thai: จิ้งหรีด (th) Urdu: کرکٹ (ur) (krikeṭ) m.

fair and sportsmanlike act

Dutch: fair-play (nl) Finnish: reilu (fi) (adjective), reilu peli (fi)

Italian: fair play (it) m. Swedish: fair play (sv) n.

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Afrikaans: krieket Asturian: críquet m. Estonian: kriket (et) Galician: críquet Greek: κρίκετ (el) (kríket) Icelandic: krikket (is) n.

Lithuanian: kriketas (lt) m. Maltese: krikkit Portuguese: críquete Romanian: crichet (ro) n. Sanskrit: क्रिकेट (krikeṭ) Sicilian: cricket (scn) m. Slovene: kriket (sl) m. Spanish: críquet (es) m.

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See also

• Appendix:Glossary of cricket

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.

Translations

play the game of cricket

Dutch: cricketen (nl)

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Noun

cricket n.

1. cricket (sports)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kʁi.kɛt/, SAMPA: /kRi.kEt/

Noun

cricket m.

1. cricket (sports)

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Italian

Noun

cricket m.

1. cricket (sports)

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Swedish

Noun

Declension of cricket

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	cricket	cricketen
genitive	crickets	cricketens

cricket c.

1. (sports) cricket

Alternative forms

• kricket (less common)

Derived terms

• cricketboll
• cricketlag
• cricketmatch
• cricketplan