Noun: cricket
| Singular | cricket |
| Plural | crickets |
Sample Sentences
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Look, that's a lovely sound, isn't it? The bat against the ball. Very English. Oh, yes, long summer afternoons spent in peace and harmony. I always say that, if Jesus had played a sport, I'm sure it would have been cricket. [1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like cricket
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin.
2. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
creket', Dutch Nouns '
kriek'.
Verbs referencing "cricket"
Dutch Nouns
cricket, French Nouns
cricket, Swedish Nouns
cricket, German Nouns
Cricket, Finnish Nouns
kriketti, Catalan Nouns
criquet, Hungarian Nouns
krikett, English Nouns
kilikiti, Polish Nouns
krykiet, Russian Nouns
крикет, Romanian Nouns
crichet, Irish Nouns
cruicéad, Icelandic Nouns
krikket, Zulu Nouns
ikhilikithi.