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footstool
English
Etymology
foot +? stool
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?t?stu?l/
Noun
footstool (plural footstools)
- A low stool for supporting the feet while seated.
- (figuratively) Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient.
Translations
See also
- stepstool
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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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