cricket

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹɪkɪt/    美 /ˈkɹɪkɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. uncountable
  3. A wooden footstool. dialectal
    — Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob
  4. 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.; In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. US,humorous,in-plural,slang
  5. An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. UK,uncountable
    — 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. […]
  6. 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.
  7. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
  8. A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). uncountable
  9. An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. slang
动词 v.
  1. To play the game of cricket. intransitive,rare
    — Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.

词形变化

crickets plural crecket alternative,archaic,dialectal crickets present,singular,third-person cricketing participle,present cricketed participle,past cricketed past crickets plural crecket alternative cracket alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 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.
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.
词源 2
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).
词源 3
The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).
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