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holy shit: the noise a cricket makes is a crick, isn't it
(this train of thought brought to you by the frantic nonstop cricking ~8 feet from my desk for the last ~78 hours.)
holy shit: the noise a cricket makes is a crick, isn't it
(this train of thought brought to you by the frantic nonstop cricking ~8 feet from my desk for the last ~78 hours.)
dict:
Cricket \Crick"et\ (kr?k"?t), n. [OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See {Creak}.]
https://www.etymonline.com/word/cricket :
saltatorial orthopterous insect, early 14c. (late 12c. as a surname), from Old French criquet "a cricket" (12c.), from criquer "to creak, rattle, crackle," of echoic origin, with a diminutive suffix; The Middle English Compendium says the French word is from Germanic (compare Dutch krekel, German Kreckel).