cricket
English
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cricket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪkᵻt/, Rhymes: -ɪkɪt
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- (Indic) IPA(key): /krɪkeʈ/, Rhymes: -ɛt
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.
Alternative forms
[edit]- crecket (dialectal and archaic)
Noun
[edit]cricket (plural crickets)
- 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.
- A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
- (aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
Derived terms
[edit]- ant cricket (Myrmecophilidae spp.)
- balm cricket, balm-cricket (Cicadoidea spp.)
- bushcricket, bush-cricket, bush cricket (Tettigoniidae spp. (UK); Eneopterinae spp. (US))
- cave cricket (Rhaphidophoridae spp.)
- chirpy as a cricket
- cricket bird
- cricket flour
- cricket frog (Acris spp.)
- cricketless
- cricketlike
- cricket thief spider
- crickety
- crotch crickets
- dune cricket (Schizodactylidae spp.)
- fen cricket
- field cricket
- holy cricket
- house cricket (Acheta domestica)
- Italian tree cricket
- Jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatini spp.)
- jiminy cricket
- king cricket
- merry as a cricket
- mole cricket
- moon cricket
- Mormon cricket
- narrow-winged tree cricket
- Otomí tree cricket
- saddle-backed bush cricket
- sand cricket
- snowy tree-cricket
- spring field cricket
- tree-cricket, tree cricket (Oecanthinae spp.))
- true cricket (Gryllidae spp.)
Translations
[edit]insect
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See also
[edit]extant orders of insects in English
- jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
- cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
- beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
- earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
- flies, dipterans (Diptera)
- webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
- mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
- ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
- true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
- hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
- butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
- mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
- mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
- scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
- megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
- neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantisflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
- damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
- orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
- stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
- stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
- booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
- snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
- fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
- strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
- thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
- caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
- zorapterans (Zoraptera)
- silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)
Etymology 2
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Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).[1]
Noun
[edit]cricket (uncountable)
- (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
- (chiefly British, chiefly in the negative) 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. […]
- A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
Derived terms
[edit]- backyard cricket
- cricketainment
- cricketana
- cricket ball
- cricket bat
- cricket chair
- cricketeer
- cricketer
- cricket field
- cricket ground
- cricketly
- cricket net
- cricket pitch
- cricket score
- cricket test
- cricket whites
- crickety
- day/night cricket
- French cricket
- grade cricket
- Kanga cricket
- Kiwi cricket
- kwik cricket
- limited overs cricket
- one-day cricket
- pencil cricket
- premier cricket
- pub cricket
- single wicket cricket
- Test cricket
- windball cricket
Descendants
[edit]- → Afrikaans: krieket
- → Albanian: kriket
- → Arabic: الكريكت (al krīkit)
- → Assamese: ক্ৰিকেট (kriket)
- → Burmese: ကရစ်ကက် (ka.rackak)
- → Catalan: criquet
- → Czech: kriket
- → Danish: kricket, cricket
- → Dutch: cricket
- → French: cricket
- → Galician: crícket
- → German: Cricket
- → Greek: κρίκετ (kríket)
- → Hebrew: קְרִיקֶט
- → Hindi: क्रिकेट (krikeṭ)
- → Hungarian: krikett
- → Icelandic: krikket
- → Irish: cruicéad
- → Italian: cricket
- → Japanese: クリケット (kuriketto)
- → Korean: 크리켓 (keuriket)
- → Malay: kriket
- → Māori: kirikiti
- → Pashto: کرکټ (krikiṭ)
- → Persian: کریکت (krekit)
- → Polish: krykiet
- → Portuguese: críquete
- → Russian: кри́кет (kríket) (see there for further descendants)
- → Scottish Gaelic: criogaid
- → Serbo-Croatian: krìket, крѝкет
- → Spanish: críquet, cricket
- → Swahili: kriketi
- → Swedish: cricket
- → Thai: คริกเก็ต (krík-gèt)
- → Urdu: کرکٹ (krikiṭ)
- → Welsh: criced
Translations
[edit]game
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fair and sportsmanlike act
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cricket”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
cricket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
cricket on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
Verb
[edit]cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)
- (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.
- Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living?
- 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
Translations
[edit]play the game of cricket
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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]
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]cricket (plural crickets)
- (dialectal) A wooden footstool.
- 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.
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Chris Mason (2 March 2009), “Cricket 'was invented in Belgium'”, in BBC News[1]
- ^ “cricket”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000., where 10+ other quotes are given.
Basque
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cricket inan
- alternative spelling of kriket
Declension
[edit]| indefinite | singular | |
|---|---|---|
| absolutive | cricket | cricketa |
| ergative | — | cricketak |
| dative | — | cricketari |
| genitive | — | cricketaren |
| comitative | — | cricketarekin |
| causative | — | cricketarengatik |
| benefactive | — | cricketarentzat |
| instrumental | cricketez | cricketaz |
| innesive | — | cricketean |
| locative | — | cricketeko |
| allative | — | cricketera |
| terminative | — | cricketeraino |
| directive | — | cricketerantz |
| destinative | — | cricketerako |
| ablative | — | cricketetik |
| partitive | cricketik | — |
| prolative | crickettzat | — |
1. Optionally, case suffixes can be separated from the root with a hyphen.
Further reading
[edit]- “cricket”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
Dutch
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English cricket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cricket n (uncountable, no diminutive)
- cricket (sport)
Derived terms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English cricket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cricket m (uncountable)
- cricket (sport)
Further reading
[edit]- “cricket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English cricket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cricket m (uncountable)
- cricket (sport)
Further reading
[edit]- cricket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cricket m (uncountable)
- alternative spelling of críquet
Further reading
[edit]- “cricket”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- kricket (less common)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English cricket.
Noun
[edit]cricket c (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | cricket | crickets |
| definite | cricketen | cricketens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
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