hockey

See also: Hockey

English edit

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An ice hockey game.

Etymology 1 edit

Unknown, 16th century, possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: hŏk'i, IPA^(key): /ˈhɒki/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑki/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒki

Noun edit

hockey (uncountable)

(Commonwealth) Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
(Canada, US) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey.

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Translations edit

the sport

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: hokkie
Aghwan: please add this translation if you can
Aklanon: please add this translation if you can
Albanian: hokej (sq) m
Arabic: هُوكِي m (hūkī)
Armenian: հոկեյ (hy) (hokey), մականախաղ (hy) (makanaxaġ)
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: ḥoquei m
Azerbaijani: xokkey
Basque: hockey
Belarusian: хаке́й m (xakjéj)
Bengali: হকি (bn) (hoki)
Bulgarian: хокей m (hokej)
Burmese: ဟော်ကီ (my) (hauki)
Catalan: hoquei (ca) m
Central Dusun: hoki
Chinese:
Cantonese: 曲棍球 (kuk¹ gwan³ kau⁴)

Mandarin: 曲棍球 (zh) (qūgùnqiú) (field hockey), 冰球 (zh) (bīngqiú) (ice hockey)
Cree (Plains Cree): ᓲᓂᐢᑳᐧᑕᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ, sôniskwâtahikêwin
Czech: hokej (cs) m
Danish: hockey c
Dutch: hockey (nl) n
Erzya: эйзюкорня (ejźukorńa)
Esperanto: hokeo (eo)
Estonian: hoki
Finnish: jääkiekko (fi), lätkä (fi), hoki (fi)
French: hockey sur gazon (fr) m (field hockey), hockey sur glace (fr) m (ice hockey), hockey (fr) m
Galician: hóckey m
Georgian: ჰოკეი (hoḳei)
German: Hockey (de) n, Eishockey (de) n (ice hockey)
Greek: χόκεϋ (el) n (chókeÿ)
Hebrew: הוֹקֵי (he) m (hokey)
Hindi: हॉकी m (hŏkī), हाकी (hi) m (hākī), हकी m (hakī), होकी m (hokī)
Hungarian: jégkorong (hu), hoki (hu)
Icelandic: hokkí (is)
Indonesian: hoki (id)
Inuktitut: haaki, ᕼᐋᑭ (haaki)
Irish: haca m (field hockey), haca oighir m (ice hockey)
Italian: hockey (it)
Japanese: ホッケー (ja) (hokkē)
Kazakh: хоккей (xokkei)
Khmer: ហុកគី (hokkii)
Korean: 하키 (ko) (haki)
Kyrgyz: хоккей (ky) (hokkey)
Lao: ຮອກກີ້ (hǭk kī)
Latvian: hokejs m
Lithuanian: ritulys m, ledo ritulys m (ice hockey)
Macedonian: хо́кеј m (hókej)
Malay: hoki (ms)
Maori: hōkī
Mongolian: хоккей (mn) (xokkej)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hockey m

Nynorsk: hockey m
Ojibwe (Chippewa): zhooskwada'e-ataadiwag
Persian: هاکی (fa) (hâki)
Polish: hokej (pl) m
Portuguese: hóquei (pt) m
Romanian: hochei (ro)
Russian: хокке́й (ru) m (xokkéj)
Scottish Gaelic: hocaidh m or f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хокеј m

Roman: hokej (sh) m
Slovak: hokej (sk) m
Slovene: hokej (sl) m
Spanish: hockey m
Swahili: mpira wa magongo
Swedish: hockey (sv), ishockey (sv) (ice hockey)
Tagalog: haki
Tajik: хоккей (xokkey)
Telugu: హాకీ (hākī)
Thai: ฮอกกี้ (th) (hɔ́k-gîi)
Turkish: hokey (tr)
Turkmen: hokkeý
Ukrainian: гоке́й m (hokéj), хоке́й (uk) m (xokéj)
Urdu: ہاکی f (hākī)
Uzbek: xokkey (uz)
Vietnamese: khúc côn cầu (vi)
Welsh: hoci
Yámana: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: האָקי (hoki), האָקיי (hokey)
Yup'ik: please add this translation if you can
Zazaki: hokey f
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

hockey (uncountable)

(US, slang) Faeces, excrement.
- 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
  “I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.”
- 2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone:
  My anger surged back a pace. “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.

Etymology 3 edit

See oche.

Noun edit

hockey (plural hockeys)

(darts, dated) Alternative form of oche.
- 1950, Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence H. Dawson, “Darts”, in Hoyle’s Games Modernized, 20th edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →OCLC; republished as The Complete Hoyle’s Games (Wordsworth Reference), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994, →ISBN, page 457:
  As has been mentioned, Darts of to-day is essentially a "public-house game," and in pretty nearly every inn, club, or institute where it has a footing (and in which has it not!) will be found minor variations in play and often games that are peculiar to the locality or even to the "school" itself. […] And in this domestic circle, at all events, it is thought that this set of Rules will prove a useful guide when taken in conjunction with what has already been said as regards the board, its position, the hockey-line, etc.
- 1977, Harry Harrison, chapter 22, in Skyfall, [London]: Hamlyn Publishing Group, →OCLC:
  Henry Lewis's body was tense, taut, his toes against the hockey, his right arm raised, his left eye half-closed. With grim intensity, backed by years of practice and experience, he sighted along the steel point, drew his arm back—and let the dart fly.
- 1985, Keith Turner, Darts, 1st Perennial Library edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 22:
  Small bars would tend to produce short hockeys; the tiny fishing pubs of Yarmouth gave rise to 6ft marks […]

References edit

“hockey” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Anagrams edit

chokey

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