hockey

[hok-ee] Origin

hock·ey

[hok-ee]

Origin:
1520–30; earlier hockie, perhaps equivalent to hock- hook + -ie -ie
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Hockey is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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hockey1 (ˈhɒkɪ)
 
n
1.  Also called (esp US and Canadian): field hockey
 a.  a game played on a field by two opposing teams of 11 players each, who try to hit a ball into their opponents' goal using long sticks curved at the end
 b.  (as modifier): hockey stick; hockey ball
2.  See ice hockey
 
[C19: from earlier hawkey, of unknown origin]

hockey2 (ˈhɒkɪ)
 
n
dialect (East Anglian) hawkey, Also: horkey
 a.  the feast at harvest home; harvest supper
 b.  (as modifier): the hockey cart
 
[C16: of unknown origin]

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Word Origin & History

hockey
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 M.Fr. hoquet "shepherd's staff, crook," dim. of O.Fr. hoc "hook." The hooked clubs with which
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the game is played resemble shepherds' staves. In N.Amer., ice hockey is distinguished from field hockey.
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hockey definition

[ˈhɑki]
and hocky
  1. mod.
    dung. (See also horse hockey.) : Watch out for that hocky there in the gutter.
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