cricketyadj.1
/ˈkrɪkᵻti/, U.S. /ˈkrɪkᵻdi/ Of or relating to the game of cricket; resembling cricket.In quot. 1692 the precise relation to the game of cricket is unclear.
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1692 T. D'Urfey Marriage-hater Match'd iii. i. 24 This was the what d'ye call it, the Cricketty Minute, a Minute when they say a Woman can deny a Man nothing; besides, I love Cricket hugely, Madam.
1995 Re: Cricket in USA Today in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet newsgroup) 7 July The terminology was more baseballesq[u]e than crickety, the West Indies having ‘retired’ the English batting lineup.
2003 Times (Nexis) 13 Sept. (Mag.) 13 Rory Bremner inhabiting a number of famous cricketty voices like Richie Benaud and Brian Johnston.
2004 Independent (Nexis) 1 Dec. 4 It's Grandstand today and the snooker final tomorrow and who knows what the next day will bring, although the chances are it's a golf open followed by something a bit crickety in Zimbabwe.
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cricketyadj.2
/ˈkrɪkᵻti/, U.S. /ˈkrɪkᵻdi/ Resembling that of a cricket, esp. resembling the characteristic chirping sound made by the male.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [adjective] > hemimetabolous > belonging to Orthoptera > cricket-like
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1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 497 The small cricketty sound of the beetle.
1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses ii. vii. 119 He has that cricketty sort of liveliness.
1949 N. Nabokoff in E. Corle Igor Stravinsky 136 There is, in effect, something crickety, something insectal about the movement of his body.
1990 Premiere June 150/2 After the speech, I had to come up to the lip of the stage to have my picture taken by hundreds of photographers making that crickety sound,..and I was just freaked and frozen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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