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Locust vs Crick - What's the difference?

locust | crick |

As a noun locust

is a type of grasshopper in the family acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation.

As a proper noun crick is

a village in northamptonshire, england.

locust

English

(wikipedia locust)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of grasshopper in the family Acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation.
  • A locust tree.

    • Usage notes

    * sometimes confused with locus

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    crick

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. (Compare catch.)
  • A small jackscrew.
    • (Knight)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to violently spasm.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Appalachian)

    • Etymology 3

    See creak.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
    • (Johnson)