rugby
See also: Rugby
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EnglishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
1823: Named after Rugby School in Warwickshire where William Webb Ellis ‘with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game’. The place name Rugby is attested in the Domesday Book as Rocheberie, possibly equivalent to rook + -by.
NounEdit
rugby (countable and uncountable, plural rugbies)
- (usually uncountable) A sport where players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.
- The scrum is a distinctive element of rugby.
- The two rugbies split following a debate about amateurism.
- (countable) A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players.
- 2003, B. Lawson Thornton, Misery Loves Company: The Diary of Kerri Mitchell, East River Press (ISBN 9780974018300)
- I don't know why, but for some reason people who work undercover for department store security always wear rugbies and khakis.
- 2007, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: A Novel, Crown (ISBN 9780307419798), page 69
- Jansports and cargo pants were everywhere, set off with overstated polos, rugbies, and sweatshirts blaring the logos of hip hop designers.
- 2015, Tony Jackson, FROM THE STREETS TO THE SHEETS, Page Publishing Inc (ISBN 9781634171519)
- I bought three jogging suits, a pair of Polo sneakers, and two rugbies.
- 2003, B. Lawson Thornton, Misery Loves Company: The Diary of Kerri Mitchell, East River Press (ISBN 9780974018300)
Usage notesEdit
Rugby is commonly used to refer specifically to the game of rugby union – for example, the Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament. Referring to rugby league simply as rugby is less common outside the sport's strongholds.
SynonymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- rugby league, league
- rugby union, RU, union
- rugby sevens, rugby 7s
- rugby tens, rugby 10s, ten-a-side rugby, 10-a-side rugby, ten-a-side, 10-a-side
- rugby fifteens, rugby 15s
- (obsolete) Canadian rules rugby (now evolved into Canadian football)
- (obsolete) American rules ruby / Harvard rules football (now evolved into American football)
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from rugby
TranslationsEdit
a sport where players can hold or kick an ovoid ball
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AfrikaansEdit
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Etymology 1Edit
From Rugby, (a brand of rubber cement by Bostik)
NounEdit
rugby
- rubber cement, contact cement
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
rugby
- the sport of rugby
CzechEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowing from English rugby (sport).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rugby n (indeclinable)
- rugby [20th c.]
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2006, Luboš Jeřábek (transl.), Fotbal – velký lexikon[1], Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of Fussball-Lexikon by Bernd Rohr and Günter Simon, ISBN 80-247-1158-3, page 10:
- Ve škole v Rugby zakládá W. W. Ellis hru rugby (zvanou také rugbyfotbal, na rozdíl od pozdějšího asociačního fotbalu), při které je dovoleno hrát i rukama.
- W. W. Ellis founds a game called rugby (or rugby football, in contrast to later founded association football), in which it is allowed to play with hands, at a school in Rugby.
- Ve škole v Rugby zakládá W. W. Ellis hru rugby (zvanou také rugbyfotbal, na rozdíl od pozdějšího asociačního fotbalu), při které je dovoleno hrát i rukama.
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Further readingEdit
- rugby in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- rugby in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
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PronunciationEdit
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Audio (file) - Hyphenation: rug‧by
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
rugby n (uncountable)
- rugby (sport)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
rugby m (uncountable)
- rugby (sport)
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Further readingEdit
- “rugby” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).