cricketとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪk.ɪt/
• 韻: -ɪkɪt

語源 1

From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French crequet, criquet (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), related to Middle English creken (“to creak”), all of imitative origin.

Compare Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.

別の表記

• crecket (dialectal かつ 古風な用法)

名詞

cricket (複数形 crickets)

2. 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.
   1. (US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
3. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
4. 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.

派生語

語源 2

cricket (1)

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”)^[1].

名詞

cricket (uncountable)

2. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
3. (chiefly Britain, usually in negative constructions) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.

   Antonym: not cricket

   • 1954, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (volume 7, page 81)

     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. […]

派生した語

参考

• Appendix:Glossary of cricket

動詞

cricket (三人称単数 現在形 crickets, 現在分詞 cricketing, 過去形および過去分詞形 cricketed)

1. (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
   • 1891 May 27, "A Cricketer in Low Circumstances", The Evening News (Sydney); cited in "What do we know about the first Test cricketer?", ESPNcricinfo, 7 August 2016

     Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living?
     

     Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.

語源 3

The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).^[2]

別の表記

• crecket, cracket

名詞

cricket (複数形 crickets)

1. (dialectal) A wooden footstool.
   • 1746, Tim Bobbin, A View of the Lancashire Dialect; by Way of Dialogue, Manchester: Josehp Harrop, page 31 in the 6th edition 1757, 13–14 in the 1797 edition:

     Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob

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