cricketressn.
/krɪkᵻˈtrɛs/, /ˈkrɪkᵻtrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈkrɪkətrəs/ rare.
A female cricketer. Cf. cricketess n.
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cricket player1654
hand1731
cricketer1744
cricketress1888
1888 Licensed Victuallers' Mirror 24 July 306 After seeing Miss Bury make thirty runs in capital style, and Miss Suttle play a good second to that remarkable cricketress, [etc.].
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June 2/2 Miss Austen played cricket... All Alfred Mynn's sisters were famous cricketresses.
1937 Times 16 July 17/5 (headline) Cricketresses make good.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- five-fingers
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- five-leaf
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- five-maled
- five-master
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- five-mile act
- five-minute
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- five-o'clock tea
- five-out measure
- five-per-cents
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