different between cricket vs clicket

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?k??k.?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French crequet, criquet (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), related to Middle English creken (“to creak”). Compare Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.

Noun

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 wooden footstool.
4. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
5. 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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 Britain, 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. […]

Descendants

Translations

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.
   • 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.

Translations

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cricket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kr?.k?t/
• Hyphenation: cric?ket

Noun

cricket n (uncountable)

1. cricket (sport)

Derived terms

• cricketen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cricket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i.k?t/

Noun

cricket m (uncountable)

1. cricket (sport)

Further reading

• “cricket” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English cricket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kri.kit/

Noun

cricket m (uncountable)

1. cricket (sport)

Further reading

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

Spanish

Noun

cricket m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of críquet

Further reading

• “cricket” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• kricket (less common)

Etymology

Borrowed from English cricket.

Noun

cricket c (uncountable)

1. cricket (sport)

Declension

Derived terms

English

Etymology 1

Verb

clicket (third-person singular simple present clickets, present participle (UK) clicketting or (US) clicketing, simple past and past participle (UK) clicketted or (US) clicketed)

1. (intransitive, of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate.

   The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.

Etymology 2

Old French cliquet (“the latch of a door”). See click.

Noun

clicket (plural clickets)

1. (Britain, dialect) The knocker of a door.
2. (Britain, dialect) A latchkey.
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Merchant's Tale (modern translation)

     He carried always the small silver clicket
     With which, as pleased him, he'd unlock the gate.