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croquet
English
Etymology
From Middle French or Old Northern French; see crochet.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: kr?'k?, IPA(key): /?k???ke?/, /?k???ki/
- (US) enPR: kr?k?', IPA(key): /k?o??ke?/
Noun
croquet (countable and uncountable, plural croquets)
- (uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
- (countable, games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
- (countable) A croquette.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Portuguese: cróquete, croquet
Translations
Verb
croquet (third-person singular simple present croquets, present participle croqueting, simple past and past participle croqueted)
- (transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
English croquet
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /k?o?k?t/
- (Central) IPA(key): /k?u?k?t/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /k?o?ket/
Noun
croquet m (plural croquets)
- croquet
Further reading
- “croquet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “croquet” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “croquet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kro??k?t/
- Hyphenation: cro?quet
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
croquet f (plural croquetten, diminutive croquetje n)
- Superseded spelling of kroket.
Usage notes
- The spelling croquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.
French
Etymology
- croquer +? -et
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.k?/
Noun
croquet m (plural croquets)
- (sports) croquet
- croquette
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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)
- 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 wooden footstool.
- A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
- 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)
- (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
- (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)
- (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
References
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English cricket.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kr?.k?t/
- Hyphenation: cric?ket
Noun
cricket n (uncountable)
- cricket (sport)
Derived terms
- cricketen
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English cricket.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?i.k?t/
Noun
cricket m (uncountable)
- 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)
- cricket (sport)
Further reading
- cricket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
Noun
cricket m (uncountable)
- 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)
- cricket (sport)
Declension
Derived terms
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