Cricket vs Grig - What's the difference?
cricket | grig |
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family , that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
A wooden footstool.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
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.
(US slang, in the plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.
(sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
(chiefly, British) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
little creature;
# A cricket or grasshopper.
#* 1926 , Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Ch. 5):
# An insect in the family Prophalangopsidae, related to katydids
# Any small eel.
# The broad-nosed eel. See glut
heath.
To irritate or annoy.
As nouns the difference between cricket and grig
is that cricket is while grig is little creature;.As a verb grig is
to irritate or annoy.cricket
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) criquet, from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* balm cricket * chirpy as a cricket * cricket bird * cricket frog * house cricket * mole cricket * Mormon cricket * true cricketEtymology 2
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch 'to ricochet' , i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7919429.stm]Noun
(-)- ''That player's foul wasn't cricket !
Usage notes
The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is always used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage. * (An act that is unfair or unsportsmanlike) not cricketSee also
*grig
English
Noun
(en noun)- The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig .
- (Audrey)