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cricketn.1 Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French criket, criquet. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman criket and Old French criquet, crequet cricket, cicada (12th cent.; French criquet , now denoting the locust), of imitative origin, reflecting the sounds made by the insects. Compare Middle Dutch crēkel , krēkel , criekel (13th cent.; Dutch krekel ). Compare also crick v.1, crick-crack n.Apparently recorded earlier as a surname (Walterus Criket (1198), Robertus Criket (1202)), although if so it is uncertain whether these reflect the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word. 1. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Gryllidae > member of (cricket) a1325 (Cambr.) (1929) 715 Salemaundre [glossed] criket. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ix. 1127 The criket hatte salamandra and haþ þat name..for he is strong and mighty aȝeins brennynge. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. l. 42 Fissch to lyue in þe flode and in þe fyre þe crykat. 1530 J. Palsgrave 210/2 Cricket a worme, cricquet, gresillon. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. ii. 15 I heard the Owle schreame, and the Crickets cry. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in 40 Far from all resort of mirth, Save the Cricket on the hearth. 1727 R. Bradley (Dublin ed.) at Dropsy Five grains of the Ashes of Crickets, little Animals found in Baker's Ovens. 1789 G. White Let. in 252 The shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous,..marvellously delights some hearers. 1846 C. Dickens (title) The cricket on the hearth. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in 152 The myriad cricket of the mead. 1886 W. W. Story 189 The crickets were trilling a myriad infinitesimal bells in the grasses. 1901 M. C. Dickerson iii. 276 The chirpings of crickets and the songs of katydids bring us pictures of long pleasant summer evenings. 1944 R. Matheson viii. 161 According to their preferred habitat crickets are variously known as mole-crickets.., bush-crickets, tree-crickets, ant-loving crickets.., and field crickets. 1977 22 Jan. 65/1 The spindly eucalypts and pandanus palms in the Alligator River district were filled with the rasping shriek of millions of cicadas and crickets. 1992 Autumn 23/2 Only two species (plus the indoor house cricket) make it north into Scotland—and even then, only just. 2002 28 June i. 14/6 Crickets cease chirruping when a storm hits, and then start up again just before the rain has stopped. 1592 R. Greene sig. D2 A..Gentleman Marchant Tailor, giuing armes and the holye Lambe in his creast, where before he had no other cognisance, but a plaine Spanish needle with a welsh cricket on the toppe. 1662 R. Venables iii. 23 Some call the flie bred of the water Cricket or Creeper a May-flie, and some a Stone-flie. 1783 (new ed.) ii Cicada, a sauterelle, or, according to others, a balm-cricket. 1864 Earl of Derby tr. Homer iii. 181 In discourse Abundant, as the cricket, that on high From topmost boughs of forest tree sends forth His delicate music. 1890 9 Dec. 3/3 Those soothing, sleep producing insects the balm crickets. 1932 18 July 18/6 Asellus cavaticus differs very little from the two species of water-woodlouse (or as they are sometimes called, ‘water crickets’) common in ponds. 1987 (Nexis) 31 May 10/4 Greek-speakers will call the same insect the tettix, because that's the way the call of the cicada or tree cricket sounded to ancient Athenian suburbanites. 1992 M. Atherden vii. 116 Other insects are wholly aquatic, such as the water crickets, pond skaters, water boatmen, whirligig beetles and the water spider. 1686 (Royal Soc.) 15 1246 Others imitate that action, and are here cal'd Ruminantia Spuria, as the Mole-cricket, Bee, Beetle..and several Birds. 1774 O. Goldsmith VII. 350 The wood-cricket is the most timorous animal in nature. 1868 J. G. Wood viii. 158 The Mole Cricket..called in some places the Croaker or Churr-worm on account of the peculiar sound which it produces. 1944 R. Matheson viii. 162 Here belong the katydids and the false katykids, the meadow grasshoppers, the cave or camel crickets, and other familiar forms. 1971 C. Johansen in R. E. Pfadt (ed. 2) xiv. 412 Certain insects, such as the buffalo treehopper, the periodical cicada, and tree crickets lay their eggs in young branches and twigs. 2002 5 July i. 19/4 Until 1975, the long-winged conehead, a small, green bush-cricket, was confined to the south coast of England. the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [noun] > merry person or people 1621 R. Brathwait sig. L2v Hee is my doore-neighbour, and indeed A very Cricket. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe iv. iii, in (1647) sig. Oo3v/1 Shee'le talke some times? tis the maddest cricket. 1797 J. O'Keeffe ii. iii. 40 Thank ye, sweet little cricket, whoever you are. c1880 L. Stringfellow Let. in S. J. Chism (2008) 127 She is a lively little cricket and you must have patience with her. 2002 (Nexis) 12 Jan. g15 Her friend and fellow Wellesley Friends Meeting member..described her as a ‘lively little cricket’. the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Procoela > family Hylidae > member of 1791 W. Bartram ii. x. 278 There is yet an extreme diminutive species of frogs, which inhabits the grassy verges of ponds in savannas: these are called savanna crickets. 1882 16 707 One of the earliest indications of returning spring is the clear, bell-like note of the little batrachian, called by many the ‘Savannah cricket’. 1949 A. H. Wright & A. A. Wright (ed. 3) 220 Cricket Frog, Western Cricket Frog.., Western Cricket, Peeper... Acris gryllus crepitans. Phrasesthe mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective] 1509 tr. A. de la Sale (de Worde) (new ed.) v. sig. E.vv She clappeth to the doores and the wykket And is as mery as it were a crykket. 1593 G. Harvey 158 As pleasant as a cricket. 1598 W. Shakespeare ii. v. 90 Prince. Shall we be merrie? Po. As merry as Crickets my lad. View more context for this quotation 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne II. xii. 405 Sadness predominates in me, and by and by I am as merry as a Cricket. 1720 N. Amhurst 11 Make me merry as a Cricket. 1777 J. Webb Let. 4 Oct. in (1893) I. 322 Little Sally is as merry as a cricket. 1815 ‘J. Mathers’ IV. ix. 366 I slept sound, ate and drank heartily, grew as merry as a cricket and as fat as a porker. 1832 Apr. 403 Next morning he looked as lively as a cricket. So much for your good Virginia blood. 1873 J. G. Holland xvi. 253 Mullens had become as cheerful and lively as a cricket. 1917 C. Morley (1919) iv. 48 He was as genial as a cricket on the hearth. 1960 16 July 36 My darling daughter awoke, lively as a cricket, just three hours after we'd gone to bed. 1969 H. E. Bates 61 Joe was as merry as a boozy cricket. 2001 J. Monninger 125 He was in good spirits and lively as a cricket. Compounds 1811 Nov. 10 Bivouaced in a wood [sc. near Atalaya, Spain], and was entertained with a fine concert of vocal music by my old friends the frogs, lizards, cricket birds, &c. 1834 7 341 The trill of the grasshopper warbler..or, as it is better named by the peasantry in these parts, ‘the cricket bird’, or the ‘rattlesnake bird’; the former, of course, from the similarity of its cry to that of the mole cricket. 1895 June 883/2 The grasshopper-warbler, cricket-bird, or cricket-chirper, haunts spots of a moister and, if possible, more lonely nature than the one just described. 2004 (Nexis) 17 June 48 Country names for the grasshopper warbler include Cricket Bird, Reeler and Grasshopper Lark, from its reeling call. 1582 R. Madox Diary 28 June in E. S. Donno (1976) 148 God send me discreet and wyse governowrs as be gentilmen in deed and not such crycketcatchers as never cam wher yt grew. 1852 S. Crowther 212 Oju-kò-bire,..bird called the cricket-catcher. 1900 E. R. Scidmore xvii. 259 Each cricket-catcher had a dozen or more russet and brown-black little fiddlers tied fast along twigs. 2002 22 16 The device was a ‘cricket catcher’. 1847 J. H. Mather & L. P. Brockett 43 The peeper or cricket frog, called in Savannah, the Savannah cricket. 1907 24 Nov. 2/8 The cricket frog distinguishes between luminous areas of different sizes but equal intensity. 1953 H. S. Zim & H. M. Smith v. 129 Cricket frogs are really small..tree frogs without toe pads. Hence they cannot climb. 1993 M. W. Klemens iv. 96 The cricket frog, Acris crepitans, was included in Connecticut's fauna by Babbitt. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 29v Crekett hole, grillarium. 1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny (new ed.) I. xxix. vi. 370 They take a flie and tie it about the midst at the end of a long haire of ones head, and so put the said flie into the mouth of the Crickets hole. 1988 Z. Liu (rev. ed.) xvi. 192 One autumn day my father took me and my brothers out to dig cricket holes in the fields outside Beijing. 1813 G. Montagu at Garganey Provincial, Cricket-teal. 1885 C. Swainson 158 Garganey... Cricket teal. From its cry. Cf. Cric cric (Jura); Criquet (savoy); Kriechentlein (Germany). 2007 21 May 33/2 Another name [for the garganey], hardly heard today, is cricket teal... The garganey I was watching suddenly uttered a low-pitched buzzing sound—very like that of a grasshopper or cricket. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cricketn.2 Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. cracket n. apparently shows a variant of the same word; compare also Scots crackie , crockie , crackie-stool , etc. (19th cent.: see Sc. National Dict. at crackie), and perhaps also crock n.6Perhaps compare Norwegian regional krakk , Swedish regional krakk simple stool, footstool, or bench, probably related to Norwegian regional krekkja , krekkje , Swedish regional kränka , kränkja in similar senses (further etymology uncertain; connection with a base meaning ‘crooked’ and hence ultimately with German krank ill (see crank n.1) is sometimes suggested, but this is very uncertain). Alternatively perhaps compare German regional (Low German) kruk-stool , plural kruk-stöle (according to Bremische Wörterbuch (1767) denoting the movable seats in churches for women of the lower ranks), in which the first element perhaps shows a cognate of crutch n. Now regional. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > for feet society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > low 1559 in P. C. D. Brears (1972) 5 Item 2 old chaires... Item one litill crekett stole. 1637 (new ed.) viii. sig. E3v Here is now sixteene pence a weeke beside..Hose, Shooes, Coats, Petticoates, Cradie and Crickets, and beside that a standing stoole. a1643 W. Cartwright Lady-errant v. i, in (1651) sig. e5 I'l stand upon a Cricket, and there make Fluent Orations to 'em. 1691 T. Shadwell ii. i. 14 I went thither [sc. to Westminster Hall] expecting to find you upon a Cricket, civilly taking Reports. 1694 S. Johnson 104 [She] threw her Cricket-stool at his Head. 1713 A. Pope in 25 June 2/1 That he..hath privily conveyed any large Book, Cricket, or other Device under him, to exalt him on his Seat. 1740 T. Gray 20 May (1971) I. 156 Nine chairs..five stools, and a cricket. 1820 W. Scott III. i. 8 His cricket-stool by the side of a huge fire. 1848 E. C. Gaskell II. vii. 106 Mary drew the little ‘cricket’ out from under the dresser, and sat down at Mrs. Wilson's knee. 1880 C. M. Yonge 220 He gave us each a little cricket to sit upon. 1922 30 Nov. 8/4 The marshmallow fork, the brass cornpopper, the spider-legged toaster, the swinging crane and kettle and the low cricket stool are all found around the much used and appreciated fireplace. 1974 D. Van Ess iii. 23 How clearly I remember sitting on a little stool (we called it a ‘cricket’) beside my grandmother's rocking chair. 2002 L. Moore 151 Then he would find a shady spot, open his folding cricket stool with a snap, and sag into its seat like a beanbag. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cricketn.3Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.Perhaps < cricket n.2 (which has forms corresponding to both α. forms and β. forms), possibly resulting from a supposed resemblance of the wicket to a stool (although there is no evidence to support a theory that the game is named after the object defended); compare the similar case of stool-ball n. Quot. 1598 suggests currency in English in the mid 16th cent., but this is far from certain. In quot. ?1575 Tut-staues or Kricket-staues renders Middle Low German Kolven , plural of Kolve bat used in a ball game. The Middle French form *criquet included in a number of dictionaries of French and interpreted as denoting a piece of wood serving as a target in a game of boules almost certainly results from a misreading of etiquet in this meaning (see palaeographical discussion of the single supposed example and reproduction of the relevant document in Jrnl. Soc. Archivists 4 (1973) 579–80). Middle French criquet piece of wood (1550), recorded in Französisches etymologisches wörterbuch at krikk-, is probably unrelated. The word cannot be, as often suggested, a derivative of Old English crycc ‘crutch, staff, crozier’ crutch n., because the cc in this word was palatal, hence giving modern English /tʃ/. For an argument that the first element of the word shows a Middle Dutch regional (Flemish) form krik (Middle Dutch crucke , cricke ; < the same base as crutch n.) see H. Gillmeister ‘The Flemish Ancestry of Early English Ball Games’ in N. Müller and J. K. Rühl Sport History (Olympic Scientific Congress) (1985) 54–74. Gillmeister argues that (unrecorded) use of the Middle Dutch word to denote a game arose as a calque on Middle French crosse (see cross n.) denoting a game (compare lacrosse n., although it appears that in Middle French the word denotes the implement as used in a game but not the game itself; compare quot. 1611 at sense 1a); he further argues that the English word arose from an (unattested) Middle Dutch regional (Flemish) *krik ketsen (in which the second word is Middle Dutch ketsen to hunt, chase < a variant of Middle French chasser chase v.1). However, it should be noted that there is no documentary support for the intermediate steps assumed in this explanation. The character of the game denoted by the word has changed enormously over the centuries. For important developments in various of the terms associated with the game see bail n.4, bat n.2, bowl v.1, wicket n. The early collocation of the word forms cricket and wicket in cricket-a-wicket adv. is probably coincidental: see discussion at that entry. The same probably applies to the following passage, which apparently shows an example of cricket n.1 (it occurs in an extended passage of invective where e.g. ‘eater of frogges’, ‘As hinde as an hogge, And kinde as any dogge’ also occur):a1550 Image Ipocrisie ii, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 406 O lorde of ipocrites, Nowe shut vpp your wickettes, And clape to your clickettes, A farewell, kinge of crekettes! 1. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] ?1575 tr. H. Niclaes v. f. 13 Ther are made likewyse, many-kynde of Balles, Tut-staues or Kricket-staues, Rackets, and Dyce [MLG. Ballen/Koluen/Raketten/vnde Terlingen], for that the foolish People, shoulde waste or spende their tyme ther-with, in Foolishnes. 1598 (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. 1611 R. Cotgrave Crosse,..also, a Cricket-staffe; or, the crooked staffe wherewith boyes play at Cricket. Crosser, to play at Cricket. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius 297 A certain Game, which the Persians call Kuitskaukan, which is a kind of Mall, or Cricket. 1676 H. Teonge (1825) 159 Wee had severall pastimes and sports, as duck-hunting..handball, krickett, scrofilo. 1712 J. Arbuthnot iv. iv. 18 When he happen'd to meet with a Foot-Ball, or a Match at Cricket. 1740 Ld. Chesterfield (1932) (modernized text) II. 453 You will desire to excel all boys of your age, at cricket, or trap-ball, as well as in learning. 1781 W. Cowper 28 May (1979) I. 487 When I was a Boy, I excell'd at cricket and Football. 1823 E. Moor 14 Bandy-wicket, a game with bats, or sticks, and ball, like cricket. 1851 H. Melville 321 Cricket is a game much played in Van Diemen's Land... The ground is in the Government paddock, within sight of the city. 1882 2 Sept. 5/3 In affectionate remembrance of English cricket which died at the Oval on 29th August, 1882, deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances. R.I.P. N.B.—The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. 1924 H. de Sélincourt iv. 83 However any sane person could prefer soccer to cricket the good little Horace totally failed to comprehend. 1963 C. L. R. James xiii. 160 Cricket, we may note in passing, was in 1837 still no more than a camp-follower in the life of the nation. 1966 23 June 923/3 White men in Trinidad had only taught the Trinidadians how to play cricket because there were not enough of their own sort to make a team. 2001 6 July ii. 19/5 Can't tell your silly mid-off from your backward square leg? This summer the Australians are in town and cricket becomes sexy. 1672 G. Swinnock xviii. 40 Maidstone was formerly a very prophane Town, insomuch that I have seen Morrice dancing, Cudgel playing, Stool-ball, Crickets, and many other sports openly and publickly on the Lords Day. 1695 W. Kennett sig. Mmmmm/2 (Gloss.) The wicket or cross stick to be thrown down by the ball at the game call'd Crickets. 1855 G. Brown iv. 53 The men were just going out to have a Christmas game at crickets. 1863 30 Aug. Suppl. 2/1 There wos lots of larks besides crickets, includen theatrickles, wich drew a big house. 1896 F. M. T. Palsgrave 12 Crickets. The game of cricket is always spoken of in this plural form. 2. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > playing 1851 J. Pycroft x. 200 Have me to bowl..Box to keep wicket, and Pilch to hit, and then you'll see Cricket. 1857 T. Hughes ii. viii. 388 Such a catch hasn't been made in the close for years... ‘Pretty cricket,’ says the Captain. 1898 K. S. Ranjitsinhji (ed. 3) x. 209 The dropped chances were the result of poor cricket on the part of the fieldsmen. 1904 P. F. Warner viii. 150 The rain came down in torrents, and no cricket took place until 2.15. 1928 R. Lynd xviii. 147 A world in which young men enjoy playing bad cricket is clearly a far happier place than a world in which young men would enjoy playing only good cricket. 1988 21 Apr. 12/4 Kensington has always produced some excellent cricket. 2007 July 77/2 When cricket was resumed, Johnston was encouraged by the former Test captain Jack Ryder to switch. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > as it should be played society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > fairness or equity > action society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > wrongly or unjustly [phrase] > unfair 1823 A. Moysey II. vi. 125 It was all a trick, he settled, just as he dropped asleep—not the real, old, legitimate system of play—not cricket, properly so called; but all a deception.] 1851 J. Pycroft xi. 210 We will not say that any thing that hardest of hitters..does is not cricket, but certainly it's anything but play. 1867 (ed. 23) 13 Do not ask the umpire unless you think the batsman is out; it is not cricket to keep asking the umpire questions. 1900 5 June 2/2 We should be very much surprised if the Duke really thought that to dissolve would be ‘cricket’. 1900 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. 1930 ‘S. S. Van Dine’ 20 It didn't seem cricket to leave the poor devil there. 1955 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. 1996 J. T. Hospital (1997) 82 We don't talk about stuff like that, he says. It's not cricket. Phrases1902 Sept. 305/1 This is not playing cricket, but it is what I have witnessed Chauncey Depew and all American show dinner orators play at. 1922 14 Nov. 10 I appeal to the Conservatives to do what is patriotic and honourable and to play ‘cricket’. 1934 20 104 Herr Hanfstaengel..has stated that Panter played rather the rôle of a military spy, and that this was not ‘playing cricket’. 1987 6 May 10/1 Why do we always have to ‘play cricket’ and get walked all over by our competitors? Compounds C1. attributive. a. 1756 Oct. 489/1 The state By Cricket-rules discriminates the great. 1833 29 May A cricket game was not illegal, nor was a wager on such a game of itself illegal. 1838 June 331/1 He was thought to be the strongest cricket bowler in England. 1885 14 Nov. 4/4 A West Indian cricket eleven is coming to Philadelphia next season. 1901 R. H. Lyttelton iv. 81 Any reform of cricket law has for its object a levelling up of attack and defence—in other words, of batting and bowling. 1938 27 Aug. 10/2 I have met recently an elderly Somerset gentleman, who is a walking dictionary of cricket lore—past and present. 1971 J. Betjeman in 18 Nov. 688/1 Near splash of dive and tock of cricket stroke How straight the crematorium driveway lies. 2008 29 Aug. 23/5 Rachel Heyhoe-Flint, the then English cricket captain. (b) society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > ball 1658 E. Phillips 50 Would my eyes had been beat out of my head with a cricket-ball. 1750 C. Talbot No. 30. 164 Sometimes an unlucky boy will drive his cricket-ball full in my face. 2007 July 23/1 Depending on who you listen to, there are as many as three different ways to make a cricket ball swing—conventional, reverse, contrast swing. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > side > club 1731 29 June Eleven Gentlemen of Kent, belonging to Esquire Steed's Cricket-Club. 1887 F. Gale ix. iv. 153 Cricket clubs are much larger affairs than they used to be. 1997 P. Carey (1998) xci. 327 He was twice president of the shire and was still the president of the Cricket Club. 1905 24 Sept. 41/7 Cricket fans are looking forward to this contest with considerable interest. 1977 C. Storr xi. 118 I'll be back to take her off to the Oval... She's a cricket fan. 2004 11 June 52 (advt.) Pakistan Vs India is a must own DVD for all cricket fans worldwide. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] 1745 29 Apr. On Wednesday next the Cricket Ground will be open'd. 1825 in W. Hone (1826) I. 636 I was stunned with shouts..from the cricket ground. 2004 A. Buzo xiii. 146 He went on to a comfortable career selling advertising space in cricket grounds..when all the pointers suggested an embittered life away from sport. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > cricket-match 1677 in T. Barrett-Lennard (1908) 317 Pd to my Lord when his Lord[shi]p went to the crekitt match at ye Dicker 03..00..00. 1747 37 In as great Esteem in London, as Cricket Matches are at this Day. 1797 15 July Swaffham Assembly will be on Wednesday, July 19th, 1797 (being Cricket Match Week). 1841 E. FitzGerald (1889) I. 71 F. Tennyson says that he and a party of Englishmen fought a cricket match with the crew of the Bellerophon. 1955 9 May 15/1 One travels not only to see a cricket match as such. 2002 H. Kunzru (2003) 180 A crowd at a cricket match poured on to the pitch, ripping up the matting wicket and waving stolen stumps in the air. 1691 J. Dunton II. viii. 87 Rost-beef, Minc'd-pies, Gammon of Bacon, Bottl'd-ale, Football, and Cricket-play. 1748 I. Cousteil 213 Cricket-play, or the Bat. 1853 1 Nov. 5/6 Much beautiful and scientific cricket play was shown. 1868 Aug. 553 A ‘duck’,—as by a pardonable contraction from duck-egg, a nought is called in cricket-play. 2007 J. Chetwynd & B. A. Belton 247/2 Australian cricketers were known for integrating baseball techniques into their cricket play. 1829 (ed. 2) ii. 53 He stated as his reason that the cricket season was approaching. 1900 17 Sept. 4/7 The first-class cricket season of 1900 came to an end at Lord's on Saturday. 1996 T. N. Murari 63 It wasn't the cricket season but he wished it was. 1835 22 Jan. The defendant had a cricket stump in his hand. 1903 Mar. 195/1 The Committee of the Marylebone Club propose to submit the widening of cricket stumps by one inch. 2010 F. Pyke & K. Davis iii. 52 He has..tried the Bradman technique of hitting a ball with a cricket stump. 1866 30 Aug. The celebrated I Zingari cricket team have opened their annual campaign in Dublin. 1908 J. Flood 109 The first season the native cricket team went from home to try their prowess against the outside world they were an object of deep interest. 2005 S. Elmes viii. 191 The local cricket team he loved and nurtured. 1853 18 Sept. 6/2 The members of the Harrow Club started upon a cricket tour. 1917 F. Lenwood iv. 66 The system is altogether like a cricket tour of the Australians in England. 2008 8 Dec. 54/1 It's not merely a cricket tour being called off. 1866 21 Apr. 8/1 Mr. C. K. Pullin, the well-known cricket umpire,..was injured in the back and face. 1903 C. P. Trevor xiii. 117 As in the case of cricket umpires, the public soon learn who are the men who..have a right to be regarded as standing at the top of the tree. 2001 B. Broady 12 The farmer, looking up, scissored his dangling arms across his thighs, like a cricket umpire signalling dead ball. 1838 (Advt. section) 107 Gentleman's dress stocks, dress and plain shirts, rowing and cricket shirts,..&c. 1848 6 Feb. 8/2 (advt.) Running or cricket caps. 1870 Apr. (Suppl.) 8/2 A good wool-worked Cricket-belt. 1906 R. R. Gilson i. iv. 48 I should be happier when I grew old enough to wear white cricket flannels and a white hat. 1959 6 July 9/1 Peter's mother never forgets to collect the cricket trousers from the cleaners. 1997 27 Mar. 78/2 Those garish pyjamas which pass for cricket attire in the one-day game. 2003 19 Sept. i. 27/1 Luella Bartley's boy-meets-girl vibe with oversized cricket-sweaters as dresses. 1844 11 Oct. 1/1 The Cricket report, as well as that of the Pigeon Shooting, have been published. 1853 W. D. Arnold I. xii. 263 The cautious science with which..he contented himself with scoring singles, might have won admiration from the very cricket correspondent of ‘Bell's Life’. 1894 ‘R. Andom’ xvii. 149 Those miserable, hollow shams who read up the cricket news..in the evening papers. 1901 13 Dec. 4/5 The old, hammered ‘stereos’ of the cricket reporter. 1947 D. Thomas 11 June (1987) 641 You're not only the best cricket commentator..; but the best sports commentator I've heard, ever. 1967 21 June 907/1 Transistor radios for getting the cricket commentaries. 1989 26 June 19/4 The serious..cricket writers are now far outnumbered by the news–sports reporters. 2002 22 Sept. 10/3 The MTVisation of cricket coverage is almost complete. C2. Objective. 1855 31 Mar. 6/6 A feature of unusual novelty..will this season be introduced to the cricket lovers. 1906 Aug. 183/2 To cricket-lovers the plight of the corpulent batsman shown in the next post-card explains itself. 2005 28 Sept. 10/5 Cricket lovers can be anything—Marxist, Trot, Old Labour, even (like my grandfather) Scottish Nationalist. 1828 10 May I have much pleasure in informing him and all your cricket-loving readers that this health-promoting game is not quite so great a novelty on this side of the Tweed as he imagines. 1908 20 Oct. 11/2 The Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, who, however his name may be printed on the match-cards, will always be known to the cricket-loving public. 2002 R. Mistry (2003) ix. 213 Bookies and bribes and match-fixers who break the cricket-loving hearts of us subcontinentals. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] 1654 in (1924) 147 325/1 Cricket players on ye Lord's Day. 1752 S. Jenyns ii. i. 95 Hence all her [sc. England's] well-bred heirs Gamesters, and jockeys turn'd, and cricket-play'rs. 1851 J. Pycroft xi. 214 Pugilists have rarely been cricket players. 1995 M. A. Malec iv. 91 Many of the better cricket players were not members of elite clubs. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > playing society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [adjective] > playing cricket 1700 30 Mar. (single sheet) Gentlemen, or others, who delight in Cricket-playing. 1837 June 117 All my recreations, up to a good Latin-learning, cricket-playing age, were of the silent, sedentary, sentimental kind. 1993 3 Apr. 13/2 Zimbabwe..had their test cricket baptism against India at Harare in October following their inclusion into the elite cricket playing nations by the International Cricket Council. 2006 N. Barnes i. 28 Caribbean cricket playing emerges as a fitting metaphor for the history and future development of a regional consciousness. C3. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > other equipment 1865 6 May 7/4 There were also presented to R. O. Cotton..a large cricket bag by G. F. Parry, Esq., for the best analysis bowling in the eleven. 1904 P. F. Warner xiii. 244 The rubber was won: the ‘ashes’ were in my cricket-bag. 1992 Winter 71/1 His cricket bag is neatly packed with batting gloves, all carefully labelled, and during an innings he will send for fresh mits, carefully instructing the twelfth man which ones to bring. 1881 9 Mar. 215/2 The vexed question of a new Cricket ‘blazer’ has been settled: the colours chosen are purple and thin yellow stripes. 1959 9 Dec. 17/4 Attired in a Pakistan cricket blazer and tie, Mr. Eisenhower..saw Pakistan lose their second and third wickets when their second innings total was only 25. 1995 G. Burn vi. 198 Cricket boots and strident striped cricket blazers teamed with designer face furniture. 1853 7 May 7/4 (advt.) J. H. Reynolds, Cricket Boot Maker, 14, Princess-st. begs leave to inform Players of Cricket, that he has now got a large stock of the celebrated Oxford Bats. 1925 24 Apr. 13/4 If white cricket-boots could be added, his manhood and his crickethood would be complete. 2009 G. Thomas vii. 133 Sinclair walked to work and unfailingly paused for a friendly word with a vagrant who wore regularly whitened cricket boots. 1859 F. W. Farrar ii. x. 312 I will just look and see if there's five pounds in the cricket-box. 1863 15 May 3/6 We have kept our cricket box there for seven years, and our foot ball flags. 1919 F. Reid (1920) i. vii. 52 Beach, sitting on one of the green, wooden cricket-boxes, opened Janet's letter. 1956 M. Pugh xi. 162 They sometimes carried shields to protect themselves from bricks and cricket boxes to protect themselves from hatpins. 1967 R. C. Bennett-England iv. 44 Adolescents using handkerchiefs and wearing cricket boxes for general wear to create an impression of being well-endowed. 1995 Aug. 20/1 Don't ever forget to wear a cricket box when you go in to bat. 1782 O. Humphrey in J. Goulstone (1998) I trouble you with this to beg to know for certain from you when the great cricket day and Ball will be at Sevenoaks. 1830 136 The poor wood-pigeons' cricket-days are over, and I know not when any others of their species will be taught such an extraordinary accomplishment. 1831 H. J. C. Blake 49 That day was a glorious one: it was one of the Almighty's most beautiful of the creation—it was a cricket day; one in which that noble game is enjoyed to perfection. 1870 H. Jackson xi. 39/2 I have no time for that sort of thing now. My cricket days are over. 1969 12 June 12/1 It was a perfect pale blue and green cricket day at Lord's yesterday. 1991 D. Brailsford 161 When his health failed,..he saw the coming end of his cricket days. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] 1760 4 July The Foundation of a Powder Magazine is digging in the Cricket-Field for the Use of the Garrison. 1884 I. Bligh in i. ii. 3 An eleven on an Australian cricket-field. 1994 I. Botham iii. 61 The more successful I was on the cricket field, the more the so-called hard men of life wanted to have a pop at me. 1827 E. Neale 163 A dozen different cricket jackets. 1903 30 Apr. (advt.) Cricket Jackets. Navy, Melton, Trimmed Ribbon, or Cord. 2005 R. Barron xvi. 186 Skip wore his Pirates Club cricket jacket. 1789 22 Aug. My son is cricket mad..his head is like his cricket-ball, Compos'd of dross and leather. 1897 C. Scott 30 When I arrived in Bombay in the winter of 1892, I found that gloriously beautiful city literally cricket mad. 2006 8 Apr. (Weekend section) 2 I remember, as a cricket-mad schoolboy, swelling fit to burst with pride at appearing in Wisden, the holy of holies. 1857 5 Apr. 7/2 These sports came off on Thursday last, when the prizes contested for were awarded as follows... Vaulting.—Cricket pads. 1908 E. Phillpotts iv. 87 Fowle, with some cricket-pads and Thompson's bicycle, faked up a most extraordinary and hideous monster. 2006 C. Fowler (2007) xliii. 408 Bryant opened the cupboard and checked inside to find cricket pads, footballs, broken pieces of science equipment, [etc.]. 1771 C. J. Fox Let. 23 Aug. in J. H. Jesse (1844) III. 11 My love to Carlisle, and tell him we have a cricket party here, at which I am very near the best player. 1808 J. Stewart ix. 119 Cricket parties have sometimes amused themselves at this game in the evenings. 1921 F. Hamilton 273 One of my oldest friends..had an annual cricket-party for the benefit of his son. 2001 (Nexis) 30 May (Sport section) 22 It doesn't make sense that the ACB would simply indulge a touring cricket party a detour to Gallipoli. 1851 12 Mar. 48/1 On Tuesday last, a levèe of Big-side unanimously determined..to accept of Mr. Haddon's tender for building a Cricket Pavilion. 1897 5 Sept. 8/1 The cricket pavilion at the Saffrons at Eastbourne was entered on Friday night by burglars, who appear to have had a carouse. 1920 17 May 9/3 The Victorian Greenkeepers' Association's annual smoke night will be held at the Fitzroy cricket pavilion on Saturday. 2001 G. A. Parker in L. A. Dugatkin i. 3 I was transported in my mother's arms to my proper place among the drowsy little throng awaiting tea by the cricket pavilion. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > wicket 1876 2 Sept. 4/3 There is a gymnasium and cricket pitch, with a very comfortable hut. 1890 17 Oct. 5/3 The London Playing Fields Committee is now laying fifteen good cricket pitches in Epping Forest. 1995 M. Coren (1996) ii. 39 Some of the mothers in Southsea were encouraging their daughters to meet this friendly-looking Scot who cut such a dashing figure on the cricket pitch. 2000 M. Fletcher (2001) iv. 92 The buffet table was the length of a cricket pitch, and laden with silver drums full of bacon, sausages, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and potato bread. 1838 16 Sept. Several cricket scores reached us too late for insertion this week. 1925 66 24/2 How many rehearsals were necessary for ‘Pierrot Lunaire’? I forget the exact figure but I do remember that it suggested quite a decent cricket score. 1927 24 Jan. 5/1 The Scottish backs..looked quite capable of piling up a cricket score. 1962 30 Mar. 4/1 Against Bradford City Juniors they ran up a cricket score of 11 goals to 1. 2006 Feb. 47/2 Heelan eventually remounted and went on to complete, albeit with a cricket score. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > for specific purpose > other > shoes 1844 21 July 1/2 (advt.) Spiked soles for cricket shoes. 1908 W. E. W. Collins ii. 27 I should doubt whether he ever owned a pair of cricket-shoes in his life. 2005 J. Craik ii. 49 Spikes for cricket shoes were patented in 1860. 1769 28 June 2/4 The Gentlemen of the late Knightsbridge Cricket Society. 1871 9 Sept. 645/1 Let us strive to attain that position in cricket society which should be ours. 1895 10 Sept. 4/1 It might have been wished by the more strictly earnest element of English cricket society that the match..had been less delayed. 1995 M. St. Pierre in H. McD. Beckles & B. Stoddart vi. 112 These West Indians were denied entrance into the top echelons of West Indian cricket society. 2008 (Nexis) 14 June (Weekend section) 12 The Tasmanian chapter of the Australian Cricket Society. 1845 13 Sept. 328/2 Bendigo's shoes and his foot were damaged by Caunt's cricket spikes in his soles. 1886 29 May 4/1 (advt.) R. G. Barlow's patent durable cricket spike. 1988 (Nexis) 3 Dec. The little Aussie bleeder, who had never worn cricket spikes. 1996 Z. Z. Cheema 111 Asif Iqbal..decided to hang up his cricket spikes. 1891 24 July 3/3 There will be nine [tennis] courts, eight of which will be in the cricket square. 1950 F. J. Reed xvii. 174 On established cricket squares mowing should commence as early as possible. 1992 Winter 72/1 He sprinted round and round the cricket square, sweating buckets as he went. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > bat ?1575Kricket-staues [see sense 1a]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Crosse,..also, a Cricket-staffe; or, the crooked staffe wherewith boyes play at Cricket. 1894 A. B. Gomme I. 82 Cricket... Wedgwood (Etym. Dict.) suggests that the proper name for the bat was ‘cricket-staff’, A.-S. criec, a staff. 1842 24 Apr. 10/4 The following arrangements have been made for the cricket week, in August next. 1916 E. F. Benson xiii. 256 There's a cricket week at Baxminster, and they've asked me to play in two matches. 2002 D. MacPherson viii. 87 As the popularity of cricket week grew, three other grounds were involved. 1956 31 Jan. 12/5 Boys..had changed into cricket whites for yesterday's ‘open day’. 2004 A. Buzo vi. 69 A farmer who could breeze into town on a Saturday, change out of his muddy boots and into cricket whites, knock up a century in an hour and then take plenty of wickets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cricketv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cricket n.3 Etymology: < cricket n.3 Compare earlier cricketing n., cricketing adj., cricketer n. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > play cricket [verb (intransitive)] c1809 Ld. Byron in (1830) I. 63 [At Harrow] I was always cricketing—rebelling—fighting—rowing. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Prol. 8 They boated and they cricketed. 1861 G. Meredith I. xv. 294 You can cricket, and you can walk. 1935 B. Malinowski I. vi. 212 The people of Kwaybwage went to M'tawa and cricketed. 1999 (Nexis) 9 July c2 They picnicked..last week while their son, James, cricketed at school. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1a1325 n.21559n.3?1575 v.c1809 |
