cricket

cricket (absolutive indefinite)
cricket-a (absolutive singular)
cricket-ak (ergative singular)
cricket-ari (dative singular)
cricket-aren (genitive singular)
cricket-arekin (comitative singular)
cricket-arengatik (causative singular)
cricket-arentzat (benefactive singular)
cricket-ez (indefinite instrumental)
cricket-az (instrumental singular)
cricket-ean (inessive singular)
cricket-ik (indefinite partitive)
cricket-tzat (indefinite prolative)


cricket

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.

(US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.

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.

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.

onomatopoeic

imitative


cricket

(sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.

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. […]

1954, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 7, page 81:

(chiefly British, chiefly in the negative) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.

A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).

→ 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)

desc

→ Hebrew: קְרִיקֶט

→ 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

→ 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

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


cricket

Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living?
Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.

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

(rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.

en-verb

cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)

crickets (present singular third-person)
cricketing (participle present)
cricketed (participle past)
cricketed (past)


cricket

Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob

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:

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.

crickets (plural)
crecket (alternative)
cracket (alternative)

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


cricket

Unadapted borrowing from English cricket.


cricket

cricket (indefinite nominative singular)
crickets (genitive indefinite singular)
cricketen (definite nominative singular)
cricketens (definite genitive singular)
kricket (alternative)