A cricket or grasshopper; a dialectal or archaic term for a jumping insect.
A shortened or dialectal form of 'cricket,' from Old English; the word may derive from Middle French criquet. It's primarily found in regional dialects.
Many English words for the sounds insects make are onomatopoetic or shortened—'crig' for cricket shows how different dialects develop nicknames for the creatures around them.
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