A crib is a small bed for a baby to sleep in. Cribs usually have bars on the sides so the baby doesn't fall out and hurt themselves - and the bars also keep older babies from escaping!
Cribs are also known as a cot or cradle or an infant bed.
Scientific name: family: gryllidae
Crickets are a type of insect distantly related to grasshoppers. Crickets make a distinctive "chirping" noise. Crickets make this noise by rubbing their hind legs together.
There are many different varieties of cricket, and they all have a slightly different "chirp".
Cries is the plural of cry, for example "I heard the cries of the baby next door."
When you cringe, you shrink or move away from something you don't like. People cringe to express a variety of negative emotions, including fear and embarrassment.
Croak is the noise a frog or toad makes. Sometimes people say "ribbit" instead of croak. Frogs make noise by passing air through a vocal sac, but by puffing out the skin on their throats they can make their croak so loud that some types of frog can be heard up to a mile away.