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▪ I. cricket, n.1|ˈkrɪkɪt|
Forms: 4–5 cri-, cryket(te, -at, crekytt, 5–6 creket(te, 7 kricket, crecket, 6– cricket.
[a. OF. criquet, crequet (Marie de France, 12th c.) cicada, cricket, related to criquer ‘to creake, rattle, crackle’ (Cotgr.), and to MDu. crekel, Du. and LG. krekel cricket; all derivatives of an echoic krik-, imitating a sharp, abrupt, dry sound, such as is made by this insect.]
1. Any saltatorial orthopterous insect of the genus Acheta or of the same tribe; the best-known species are the common house-cricket, Acheta domestica, ‘an insect that squeaks or chirps about ovens and fireplaces’ (J.), the field-cricket, A. campestris, and mole-cricket, Gryllotalpa vulgaris.
In ME. identified with the fabulous Salamander.
c1325Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 164 La salemaundre, a criket. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiv. 42 Fissch to lyue in þe flode and in þe fyre þe crykat. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. ix. (1495) 760 The Crekette hyght Salamandra: for thys beest quenchyth fyre and lyueth in brennynge fyre. 1530Palsgr. 210/2 Cricket a worme, cricquet, gresillon. 1605Shakes. Macb. ii. ii. 16, I heard the Owle schreame, and the Crickets cry. 1632Milton Penseroso 82 Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Dropsy, Five grains of the Ashes of Crickets, little Animals found in Baker's Ovens. 1795Southey Hymn to Penates, Where by the evening hearth Contentment sits And hears the cricket chirp. 1846Dickens (title), The Cricket on the Hearth. 1859Tennyson Elaine 106 The myriad cricket of the mead.
b. Used for cicada. (Cf. balm-cricket.)
1864Ld. Derby Iliad iii. 181 In discourse Abundant, as the cricket, that on high From topmost boughs of forest tree sends forth His delicate music.
c. transf. of a person.
1612Beaum. & Fl. Coxcomb iv. iii, Shee'le talke some times; 'tis the maddest cricket!
d. Prov. phrase. as merry (etc.) as a cricket.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 158 As pleasant as a cricket. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 100 Prin. Shall we be merry? Poin. As merrie as Crickets, my Lad. 1720Amherst Ep. Sir J. Blount 11 Make me merry as a Cricket. 1873Holland A. Bonnic. xvi. 253 Mullens had become as cheerful and lively as a cricket.
2. U.S. savannah cricket (cf. cricket-frog in 3).
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 217 There is yet an extremely diminutive species of frogs, called by some, Savannah crickets, whose notes are not unlike the chattering of young birds or crickets.
3. Comb., as cricket-hole; cricket-bird, a local name for the grasshopper warbler (Locustella nævia); cricket-frog, a name for small tree-frogs of the genus Hylodes, which chirp like crickets; cricket-teal, a local name for the garganey (Querquedula circia).
1483Cath. Angl. 80 Crekethole, grillarium.
▪ II. cricket, n.2|ˈkrɪkɪt|
Also 6 creckett, 7 krickett.
[Etymology uncertain.
The word occurs in a document of 1598 (see below), and the evidence then given takes the game back to the end of the reign of Henry VIII. The word appears to be the same as F. criquet given by Littré as ‘jeu d'adresse’, by Godefroy as ‘bâton servant de but au jeu de boules’, with a quot. of 1478, ‘Le suppliant arriva en ung lieu ou on jouoit a la boulle, pres d'une atache [vine-stake] ou criquet’. It has been surmised that it is the same as cricket n.3, and the game a development of that known as stool-ball, to which there are many references from 1567 to 1725, as a game at which girls and women especially played; but this is very doubtful: cricket, a stool, is itself not in evidence till a later date. Cricket cannot be a deriv. of OE. crycc ‘knobbed staff’, for here the cc was palatal and gave ME. crytch, crutch; but F. criquet might be a deriv. of the cognate M.Flem. krick, kricke, ‘baston à s'appuyer, quinette, potence’. Many changes have been made in the character of the game since the 17th c. when the bats were hockey-sticks, the wicket of two stumps with one long bail, and the ball trundled or ‘bowled’ along the ground. Cf. bail n.4, bat n.2, bowl v., wicket.]
1. a. An open-air game played with ball, bats, and wickets, by two sides of eleven players each; the batsman defends his wicket against the ball, which is bowled by a player of the opposing side, the other players of this side being stationed about the ‘field’ in order to catch or stop the ball.
1598Guild Merchant Bk. (MS. in Guildford Borough Records), John Denwick of Guldeford..one of the Queenes Majesties Coroners of the County of Surrey being of the age of fyfty and nyne yeares or there aboute..saith upon his oath that hee hath known the parcell of land..for the space of Fyfty years and more, and..saith that hee being a schollar in the Free schoole of Guldeford, hee and several of his fellowes did runne and play there at Creckett and other plaies. [Cf. History of Guildford (1801) 203.] 1611Cotgr., Crosse..also, a Cricket-staffe; or, the crooked staffe wherewith boyes play at Cricket. Crosser, to play at Cricket. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxii, At cricket. 1662J. Davies Voy. Ambass. 297 A certain Game, which the Persians call Kuitskaukan, which is a kind of Mall, or Cricket. 1676H. Teonge Diary (1825) 159 Wee had severall pastimes and sports, as duck-hunting..handball, krickett, scrofilo. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iv. iv, When he happened to meet with a foot-ball, or a match at cricket. 1781Cowper Lett. 28 May, When I was a boy I excelled at cricket and foot⁓ball. 1881Daily News 9 July 2 The cricket was very slow for a time. 1888Pardon Wisden's Almanac 111 Mr. W. G. Grace played excellent cricket.
b. The playing of the game of cricket.
1851J. Pycroft Cricket Field x. 200 Have me to bowl..Box to keep wicket, and Pilch to hit, and then you'll see Cricket. 1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. viii, Such a catch hadn't been made in the close for years... ‘Pretty cricket,’ says the Captain. 1898Ranjitsinhji With Stoddart's Team (ed. 3) x. 209 The dropped chances were the result of poor cricket on the part of the fieldsmen. 1904P. F. Warner Recov. Ashes viii. 150 The rain came down in torrents, and no cricket took place until 2.15.
c. Cricket as it should properly be played; hence fig., fair play; honourable dealings with opponents or rivals; esp. in phr. not cricket; so to play cricket, to act fairly; to ‘play the game’.
1851J. Pycroft Cricket Field xi. 210 We will not say that any thing that hardest of hitters..does is not cricket, but certainly it's anything but play. 1867J. Lillywhite Cricketers' Compan. 13 Do not ask the umpire unless you think the batsman is out; it is not cricket to keep asking the umpire questions. 1900Westm. Gaz. 5 June 2/2 We should be very much surprised if the Duke really thought that to dissolve would be ‘cricket’. Ibid. 31 July 1/3 We believe that the feeling is very widespread that it would not be ‘cricket’ to get back to power again as the result of an appeal to the country. 1911W. De Morgan Likely Story 313 It is scarcely fair play to make a merit of patience—isn't cricket, as folk say nowadays. 1922Daily Mail 14 Nov. 10, I appeal to the Conservatives to do what is patriotic and honourable and to play ‘cricket’. 1930‘Van Dine’ Scarab Murder 20 It didn't seem cricket to leave the poor devil there. 1955Times 21 July 5/7 When one was called to the Bar one was a public menace but one learnt what was and was not cricket during the period of pupilage.
2. attrib. and Comb., as cricket-ball, cricket-cap, cricket-club, cricket-field, cricket-ground, cricket-jacket, cricket-match, cricket-pitch, cricket-player, cricket-playing, † cricket-staff, cricket-week; cricket-bag, a long bag in which a cricketer's equipment is carried; cricket-shoes, shoes specially designed for wear on the cricket-field, usually having spiked soles.
1868Saint Pauls II. 549 At Florence, Rome, or Naples, the unwonted spectacle of *cricket-bags may startle the natives. 1904P. F. Warner Recov. Ashes xiii. 244 The rubber was won: the ‘ashes’ were in my cricket-bag.
1658E. Phillips Myst. Love & Eloq., Would my eyes had been beat out of my head with a *cricket ball. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 30 ⁋6 Sometimes an unlucky boy will drive his cricket-ball full in my face. 1909Daily Chron. 10 Feb. 5/3 A neighbouring cricket-ball factory.
1873L. Troubridge Jrnl. in J. Hope-Nicholson Life amongst Troubridges (1966) ii. 9 A blue and white *cricket cap on the back of his head. 1916E. F. Benson David Blaize iii. 35 The school eleven cricket-cap which he had won last week.
1731Daily Advertiser 29 June, Eleven Gentlemen of Kent, belonging to Esquire Steed's *Cricket-Club. 1755(title), The Game at Cricket, as settled by the Several Cricket Clubs. 1887F. Gale Game of Cricket 153 Cricket clubs are very much larger affairs than they used to be.
1787in H. T. Waghorn Cricket Scores (1899) Frontispiece, Representation of the Noble Game of Cricket, as played in the celebrated *Cricket Field near White Conduit House. 1884I. Bligh in Lillywhite's Cricket Ann. 3 An eleven on an Australian cricket-field.
1825in Hone Everyday Bk. I. 636, I was stunned with shouts..from the *cricket ground.
1827E. Neale Living & Dead 163 A dozen different *cricket jackets. 1903Cricket 30 Apr. (Advt.), Cricket Jackets. Navy, Melton, Trimmed Ribbon, or Cord.
1677in T. Barrett-Lennard Fam. Lennard & Barrett (1908) 317 The *crekitt match at ye Dicker. 1747Scheme Equip. Men of War 37 In as great Esteem in London, as Cricket Matches are at this Day. 1955Times 9 May 15/1 One travels not only to see a cricket match as such.
1890*Cricket pitch [see pitch n.2 13].
1654in N. & Q. (1924) CXLVII. 325/1 *Cricket players on ye Lord's Day. a1787Jenyns Imit. Hor. Epist. ii. i. (R.) Hence all her [England's] well-bred heirs Gamesters and jockies turn'd, and cricket players. 1851J. Pycroft Cricket Field xi. 214 Pugilists have rarely been cricket players.
1700Post Boy 30 Mar. in N. & Q. 10th Ser. (1904) II. 394/2 Gentlemen, or others, who delight in *Cricket-playing. 1894W. B. Yeats Let. 6 Aug. (1954) 234 Those vigorous fair-haired, boating, or cricket-playing young men. 1906A. E. Knight Complete Cricketer ix. 323 The Need of Cricket Playing.
1849‘Bat’ Cricketer's Manual (Advt.), Spiked soles for *cricket shoes. 1908W. E. W. Collins Country Cricketer's Diary ii. 27, I should doubt whether he ever owned a pair of cricket-shoes in his life.
1611*Cricket-staffe [see above].
1873W. P. Lennox Recoll. 1806–73 ii. v. 106 Few gatherings are more delightful than the one that takes place annually at Canterbury during the *cricket week. 1916E. F. Benson David Blaize xiii. 256 There's a cricket week at Baxminster, and they've asked me to play in two matches. 1968R. V. Beste Repeat Instructions xi. 121 A local festivity such as a cricket week.
▪ III. cricket, n.3|ˈkrɪkɪt|
Also 7 -it, krickett.
[This and the parallel form cracket appear in the 17th c. Cf. also crock n.5; the ulterior history is unknown.
Connexion has been suggested with LG. kruk-stool, pl. -stöle, according to the Bremische Wörterbuch 1767, ‘the movable seats in churches for women of the lower ranks.’]
A low wooden stool; a foot stool. Now local.
a1643W. Cartwright Lady Errant v. i. (1651) 69 I'l stand upon a Crickit, and there make Fluent Orations to 'em. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 291/2 A kind of low footed stool, or Cricket as some call it. 1691Shadwell Scowrers 11, I went thither [to Westminster Hall], expecting to find you upon a Cricket, civilly taking Reports. 1713Guardian No. 91 That he..hath privily conveyed any large book, cricket, or other device under him, to exalt him on his seat. 1740Gray Wks. (1827) 78 Nine chairs..five stools, and a cricket. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton xxiv, Mary drew her little cricket out from under the dresser, and sat down at Mrs. Wilson's knees. 1880C. M. Yonge Bye Words 220 He gave us each a little cricket to sit upon.
b. Also cricket-stool. (Cf. Sc. crackie-stool.)
1694S. Johnson Notes on Lett. Bp. Burnet i. 104 [She] threw her Cricket-stool at his Head. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. xxx. (1737) 126 His Reason, like a Cricket Stool.
▪ IV. cricket, v.|ˈkrɪkɪt|
[f. cricket n.2]
intr. To play cricket.
c1809Byron in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) I. 63 [At Harrow] I was always cricketing—rebelling—fighting—rowing. 1847Tennyson Princ. Prol. 159 They boated and they cricketed. 1861G. Meredith Evan Harrington I. xv. 294 You can cricket, and you can walk. |