different between crickets vs cricket

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?k??k?ts/
• Hyphenation: crick?ets

Etymology 1

Sense 2 is derived from the cinematic metaphor of chirping crickets at night, signaling (otherwise) complete quiet.

Noun

crickets

1. plural of cricket.
2. (US, Canada, slang, humorous) Used alone or in metaphorically descriptive phrases: absolute silence; no communication.

See also

• stridulation

Etymology 2

Interjection

crickets

1. Expressing mild annoyance or surprise.
   • 1902, George Ade, “The Fable of the Long-range Lover, the Lollypaloozer, and the Line of Talk”, in The Girl Proposition. A Bunch of He and She Fables, New York, N.Y.: R. H. Russell, OCLC 776243245; republished Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1969, OCLC 695700303, page 9:

     "Oh Crickets! I seen you at the The-ayter one Night," she said. "I was there with Ollie Pozozzle of Minneapolis. Me and him come out just behind you. […]"

Swedish

Noun

crickets

1. indefinite genitive singular of cricket

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