Middle English Dictionary Entry
criket n.
Entry Info
| Forms | criket n. Also creket. |
| Etymology | OF criquet; ult. Gmc. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A cricket; esp., the European house cricket (Gryllus domesticus); also, the mythical salamander; (b) a surname.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)715 : Salemaundre: criket.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)814 : Salamandre et grisiloun, Criket and gressehopper.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)267b/a : Suche manere bestes woneþ in þe fuyre, as it fareth of Crikettes..The criket hatte Salamandra.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)14.42 : Fissch to lyue in þe flode, and in þe fyre þe crykat.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)55 : En four maynt le salemandre..In owen dwellyþ þe creket.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)642/30-1 : Hec salamandra, Anglice cryket. Hic grillius, idem.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)103 : Crykette: Salamandra, crillus [Win: Grillus].
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)168/5 : Þe creket [vr. Criketis]..lyueþ in þe fier.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)29b : A Crekett: grillus, salamandra. A Crekett hole: grillarium, grilletum, locus vbi h[ab]undant.
- a1500 The krycket (Pen 356B)1 : The krycket & þe greshope wentyn here to fyȝgh.
b
- (1198) CRR(2) 140 : Walterus Criket.
- (1202) Assize R.Lin.in Lin.RS 22921 : Robertus Criket.