hockey
pronunciation
How to pronounce hockey in British English:
UK [ˈhɒki]
How to pronounce hockey in American English:
US [ˈhɑːki]
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- Noun:
- hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved sticks to drive a ball into the opponents' net
- a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6 skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with hockey sticks
Word Origin
- hockey
- hockey: [19] The first known unequivocal reference to the game of hockey comes in William Holloway’s General Dictionary of Provincialisms 1838, where he calls it hawkey, and describes it as ‘a game played by several boys on each side with sticks, called hawkeybats, and a ball’ (the term came from West Sussex). It is not known for certain where the word originated, but it is generally assumed to be related in some way to hook, with reference to the hockey stick’s curved end. The Galway Statutes of 1527 refer to the ‘hurling of the little ball with hockie sticks or staves’, which may mean ‘curved sticks’.=> hook
- hockey (n.)
- after an isolated reference from Ireland dated 1527 ("The horlinge of the litill balle with hockie stickes or staves ..."), the word is next recorded 1838 from W. Sussex; of unknown origin, perhaps related to Middle French hoquet "shepherd's staff, crook," diminutive of Old French hoc "hook." The hooked clubs with which the game is played resemble shepherds' staves. In North America, ice hockey is distinguished from field hockey.
Example
- 1. Ice hockey is a really cerebral game .
- 2. Mr. weiner played hockey in january at the chelsea piers in manhattan .
- 3. The national hockey league season was supposed to start in october , 11th .
- 4. The only place you 'll find all four of those teams is the national hockey league .
- 5. Primarily , canadians never consider themselves to be number one in anything apart from hockey .