cricket

Antonyms for cricket

Word Origin & History

the insect, early 14c., from Old French criquet (12c.) "a cricket," from criquer "to creak, rattle, crackle," of echoic origin.

Most of these are raw boys, who know all that can be learned of war on a cricket field.

The cricket in the raspberry-hedge heard them, and she chirped, oh!

"I expect to be as gay as a cricket," returned Mrs. Blair, innocently.

I knew ye hadn't got nobody except her, but I knew, too, ye were contented there as a cricket.

There was, however, no cricket for Stanley Carew that morning.

The giant before us, mounted on Cricket, was my prisoner of the previous day.

I perceived all at once that to make any sort of defence of myself would not be cricket.

He believes in the healthy exercise of swimming and boating and cricket.

He was old and snowy haired, but as fresh as a daisy and as spry as a cricket.

"A nut-brown maiden, nut-brown maiden," chirped a cricket on the hearth.