hockey [hok-ee] ExamplesWord Origin noun
Origin of hockey 1520–30; earlier hockie, perhaps equivalent to hock- hook1 + -ie -ie Examples from the Web for hockey Contemporary Examples of hockey
I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes “The Bass Pros” on Outdoor Channel.
Up to a Point: They Made Me Write About Lena Dunham
P. J. O’Rourke
December 13, 2014
Barnes and Harper talked deeply about hockey, a subject that the prime minister has written a book about.
The GOP Has a New Darling, But He Lives in Canada
Tim Mak
October 23, 2014
They were also, according to NHL coaching great Scotty Bowman, the greatest lineup in the history of hockey.
Putin’s Hockey Pal Tells All: Slava Fetisov on ‘Red Army,’ Soviet Nostalgia, and What Drives Putin
Marlow Stern
October 9, 2014
Hockey outcomes are not obstacles to the mathematically impaired.
Up To a Point: Oops, I Enjoyed Soccer
P. J. O’Rourke
July 13, 2014
As Chris Rock put it in his great heroin and hockey routine, “Only junkies want heroin, only hockey fans watch hockey.”
The World Cup Still Hasn’t Conquered America
Allen Barra
July 8, 2014
Historical Examples of hockey
Hockey, dances, and good times were the subjects he dealt with.
Joseph C. Lincoln
This was observed by a gang of boys playing at hockey in the road.
Hall Caine
You know she was on the crew and the basketball team and the hockey team at college.
Jane Abbott
And I can’t play on the hockey team in the inter-class match this week!
Jane Abbott
Hockey is all very well, but give me our orange groves and the blue sea.
Angela Brazil
British Dictionary definitions for hockey hockey 1 noun
- Also called (esp US and Canadian): field hockey
- 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
- (as modifier)hockey stick; hockey ball
- See ice hockey
Word Origin for hockey C19: from earlier hawkey, of unknown origin hockey 2 noun
- East Anglian dialect
- the feast at harvest home; harvest supper
- (as modifier)the hockey cart
Also: hawkey, horkey
Word Origin for hockey C16: of unknown origin Word Origin and History for 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.