golfn.

Brit.

/ɡɒlf/,

/ɡɒf/, U.S.

/ɡɔlf/,

/ɡɑlf/

Forms: Middle English gouff, 1500s goif(f, ( golfe), 1500s–1800s goff, 1700s–1800s gowff, (1700s golff, 1800s golph), (1800s gaff), Middle English– golf.

Etymology: Of obscure origin.Commonly supposed to be an adoption of Dutch kolf, kolv- (= German kolbe, Old Norse kólfr, etc.), ‘club’, the name of the stick, club, or bat, used in several games of the nature of tennis, croquet, hockey, etc. But none of the Dutch games have been convincingly identified with golf, nor is it certain that kolf was ever used to denote the game as well as the implement, though the game was and is called kolven (the infinitive of the derived verb). Additional difficulty is caused by the absence of any Scottish forms with initial c or k, and by the fact that golf is mentioned much earlier than any of the Dutch sports. Some modern Scots dialects have gowf ‘a blow with the open hand’, also verb to strike. The Scots pronunciation is /ɡəʊf/; the pronunciation /ɡɒf/, somewhat fashionable in England, is an attempt to imitate this.

A game, of considerable antiquity in Scotland, in which a small hard ball is struck with any of various clubs into a series of small cylindrical holes made at intervals, usually of a hundred yards or more, on a golf-course.The objective of the game is to drive the ball into any one hole, or into all the holes successively, with the fewest possible strokes; commonly two persons, or two couples (a ‘foursome’), play against each other.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun]

golf1457

great game1866

1457 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 48/2 And at þe fut bal ande þe golf be vtterly cryt downe and nocht vsyt.

1491 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1814) II. 226/2 Fut bawis gouff or vthir sic vnproffitable sportis.

1538 Aberdeen Reg. V. 16 (Jam.) At the goiff.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 285 Certane horsmen of Edinburgh..past to the links of Leith, and..tuck nyne burgessis of Edinburgh playand at the golf.

c1615 S. D'Ewes Secret Hist. James I (Harl. MS) in Autobiogr. & Corr. (1845) II. 48 Goff, tennis, or other boys' play.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 154/1 Pythus, the first inventer of many Games at Ball: I do not say of Gaff, Tennis, or Paille-Maille.

1691 T. Shadwell Royal Shepherdess (new ed.) iii. 29 We merrily play At Trap, and at Keels [1720 Reels]..At Goff, and at Stool-ball.

1711 A. Ramsay Elegy Maggy Johnstoun 37 Whan we were weary'd at the gowff, Then Maggy Johnston's was our howff.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 239 Hard by, in the fields called the Links, the citizens of Edinburgh divert themselves at a game called golf.

1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 97 Colin's favourite holiday's diversion was playing at goff.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ii. 30 Rather than go to the golf or the change-house.

1867 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) II. 251 Golf is the queen of games, if cricket is the king.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

golf bag n.

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1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 1446 The New Golf Bag. Made same style as a cricket bag and large enough to take clubs, sling, balls, etc.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Oct. 16/3 (advt.) English golf bag and clubs, also violin, for sale.

golf cap n.

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1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 235/3 Men's Fancy Golf Caps at 21c.

1938 Time 5 Dec. 12 He crams a golf cap on his balding grey head.

golf-course n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun]

links1728

golf-course1890

golf-links1891

course1893

golf-green1894

1890 Spectator 4 Oct. 438/1 Long stretches of turf..are indispensable for the formation of golf-courses.

golf length n.

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1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. iii. 95 Goff-lengths, or the spaces between the first and last holes, are sometimes extended to the distance of two or three miles.

golf match n.

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1857 J. Blackwood Let. 30 Apr. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) II. 324 If you saw me starting for a Golf match you would think my tastes..simple, if not even childish.

1926 P. G. Wodehouse Heart of Goof ii. 60 I am playing a very important golf-match this morning.

1971 ‘H. Howard’ Murder One xiii. 157 He wanted to get away..because he had a golf match at two.

golf-player n.

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1881 Sportsman's Year-bk. 256 Prince Henry, the elder brother of Charles I, was a zealous golf player.

golf-stick n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club

golf-club1508

golf-stick1839

1839 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 85 He..made a goff-stick with a hollow handle.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxi. 206 Each of them had a walrus-rib for a golph or shinny stick.

C2.

golf ball n. (a) a ball used in playing golf; (b) (a colloquial name given to) a spherical ball in certain kinds of electric typewriter on which all the type is mounted and which is caused to move to present the required symbol to the paper.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > ball

golf ball1545

globe1862

society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriter type > type-ball

golf ball1966

type-ball1971

1545 Aberdeen Reg. V. 19 (Jam.) Thre dossoun and thre goif bawis.

1637 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 78 He sauld twa of the golf ballis to Thomas Urquhart.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. i. 17 I'll get him off on the instant like a gowff ba'.

1966 Gloss. Automated Typesetting (ed. 2) 87 The IBM 72 electric typewriter characterized by its stationary platen and the concentration of all type characters on a single, interchangeable globe-shaped unit called a typing element..; sometimes referred to as the ‘golf ball’ typewriter.

1969 Computers & Humanities Sept. i. 76 This arrangement allows more flexibility than a line printer, since one can change the type ‘golfball’ but it is very, very slow.

1970 British Printer Dec. 73/2 Hard copy is produced by the IBM ‘golfball’.

1970 A. Cameron et al. Computers & Old Eng. Concordances 32 There is a machine which will read the product of a selectric typewriter with a special golfball.

golf cart n. (a) a trolley for carrying golf clubs; (b) a motorized cart for transporting golfers and their equipment.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > motorized cart for golfers and equipment

golf cart1951

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > wheelbarrow or handcart > for carrying golf-clubs

golf cart1951

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > cart

golf cart1951

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > cart > for clubs

golf buggy1930

golf cart1951

caddie-car1961

1951 Golfers' Year II. 136 (advt.) No other golf cart has the following unique features.

1963 Golf World Jan. 42/2 An American-style golf cart designed to carry both you and your clubs might seem of little use on Britain's courses.

1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 17 July (1970) 183 We had two swift and pleasant hours—and then..into the hangar where the white golf cart waited for us.

1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird iii. 28 He had already hired an electric golf-cart, a sorry sight.

golf-club n. (see club n. 2).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club

golf-club1508

golf-stick1839

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > player > club

golf-club1834

1508 Reg. Privy Seal Scot. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 108* Slaughter committed ‘on suddantie’, by the stroke of a ‘golf-club’.

1753 Scots Mag. Aug. 421/2 The city of Edinburgh's silver goff-club was played for Aug. 4.

a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) ix. 343 Garrick..had told us to bring golf clubs and balls.

1834 in R. Clark Golf (1875) 79 The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.

1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 325 The Royal Liverpool Golf Club.

1931 T. S. Eliot Triumphal March Those are the golf club Captains, these the Scouts.

1965 A. S. Graham Golf Club x. 64 Every golf club has its distinct golfing types.

golf-croquet n. (see quot. 1960).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > games resembling croquet > [noun]

closh1477

lawn billiards1873

troco1882

roque1899

golf-croquet1920

1920 W. Deeping Second Youth xv To play them at golf-croquet.

1960 E. P. C. Cotter Tackle Croquet this Way i. 13 A game of Golf Croquet. This is a game in which the hoops are treated as ‘holes’, as in Golf. The balls play in sequence..and the first ball to run the hoop wins the hole and then all proceed to the next hoop.

golf-drive n. a drive (drive n. 8) in golf; also, a similar stroke in Cricket.

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1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Feb. 12/2 In such a stroke as a golf-drive the arm that reaches its fullest extension first is almost certain to be the dominating factor in regulating impact.

1913 Daily Mail 7 July 9/1 A plucky forcing batsman, rather partial to the on ‘golf drive’.

golf-green n. = golf-links n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun]

links1728

golf-course1890

golf-links1891

course1893

golf-green1894

1894 (title) Golf greens of England and Wales.

golf-links n. the ground on which golf is played.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun]

links1728

golf-course1890

golf-links1891

course1893

golf-green1894

1877 J. Blackwood Let. 27 Mar. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) VI. 357 I am going..to North Berwick... It is a pretty country and there is a Golfing Links.]

1891 H. G. Hutchinson (title) Famous golf links.

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv. 174 He seemed to spend all his spare time frolicking with the man on the golf-links.

golf shot n. a shot in golf.

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1903 H. D. G. Leveson-Gower in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket xi. 352 ‘You want the golf shot?’.. He went to the wicket and made ninety.

golf-widow n. a woman whose husband spends much of his spare time playing golf.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife whose husband is absent

widow1447

grass widow1822

wife-widow1875

golf-widow1898

1898 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Dec. 180 Why should there be any such thing as a golf widow? Nobody ever heard of a golf widower.

1928 M. H. Weseen Crowell's Dict. Eng. Gram. 274 Golf widow, humorous colloquial name for a woman whose husband spends much time playing golf and little time at home.

1965 Punch 19 May 725/1 At the last census, there were more stamp-widows than golf-widows.

Derivatives

golfist n. a golfer; a devotee of golf.

ΚΠ

1902 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 2/3 Tax golfists: What a lot you'll make By fining them each time they swear!

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golfite n. a golfer, devotee of golf.

Draft additions March 2017

golf buggy n. = golf cart n. (b) at Compounds 2.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > cart > for clubs

golf buggy1930

golf cart1951

caddie-car1961

1930 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 16 July 12/2 Garry O'Reair has a new golf buggy.

2008 B. Wilkinson Me 1 Arthritis 0 167 Back home golf buggies were reserved for the rich and famous or prestigious courses I was never entitled to play, but here they were as common as the number of folks walking the links back in Scotland.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	golf
释义	golfn. Brit. /ɡɒlf/, /ɡɒf/, U.S. /ɡɔlf/, /ɡɑlf/ Forms: Middle English gouff, 1500s goif(f, ( golfe), 1500s–1800s goff, 1700s–1800s gowff, (1700s golff, 1800s golph), (1800s gaff), Middle English– golf. Etymology: Of obscure origin.Commonly supposed to be an adoption of Dutch kolf, kolv- (= German kolbe, Old Norse kólfr, etc.), ‘club’, the name of the stick, club, or bat, used in several games of the nature of tennis, croquet, hockey, etc. But none of the Dutch games have been convincingly identified with golf, nor is it certain that kolf was ever used to denote the game as well as the implement, though the game was and is called kolven (the infinitive of the derived verb). Additional difficulty is caused by the absence of any Scottish forms with initial c or k, and by the fact that golf is mentioned much earlier than any of the Dutch sports. Some modern Scots dialects have gowf ‘a blow with the open hand’, also verb to strike. The Scots pronunciation is /ɡəʊf/; the pronunciation /ɡɒf/, somewhat fashionable in England, is an attempt to imitate this. A game, of considerable antiquity in Scotland, in which a small hard ball is struck with any of various clubs into a series of small cylindrical holes made at intervals, usually of a hundred yards or more, on a golf-course.The objective of the game is to drive the ball into any one hole, or into all the holes successively, with the fewest possible strokes; commonly two persons, or two couples (a ‘foursome’), play against each other. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] golf1457 great game1866 1457 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 48/2 And at þe fut bal ande þe golf be vtterly cryt downe and nocht vsyt. 1491 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1814) II. 226/2 Fut bawis gouff or vthir sic vnproffitable sportis. 1538 Aberdeen Reg. V. 16 (Jam.) At the goiff. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 285 Certane horsmen of Edinburgh..past to the links of Leith, and..tuck nyne burgessis of Edinburgh playand at the golf. c1615 S. D'Ewes Secret Hist. James I (Harl. MS) in Autobiogr. & Corr. (1845) II. 48 Goff, tennis, or other boys' play. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 154/1 Pythus, the first inventer of many Games at Ball: I do not say of Gaff, Tennis, or Paille-Maille. 1691 T. Shadwell Royal Shepherdess (new ed.) iii. 29 We merrily play At Trap, and at Keels [1720 Reels]..At Goff, and at Stool-ball. 1711 A. Ramsay Elegy Maggy Johnstoun 37 Whan we were weary'd at the gowff, Then Maggy Johnston's was our howff. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 239 Hard by, in the fields called the Links, the citizens of Edinburgh divert themselves at a game called golf. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 97 Colin's favourite holiday's diversion was playing at goff. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ii. 30 Rather than go to the golf or the change-house. 1867 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) II. 251 Golf is the queen of games, if cricket is the king. Compounds C1. General attributive. golf bag n. ΚΠ 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 1446 The New Golf Bag. Made same style as a cricket bag and large enough to take clubs, sling, balls, etc. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Oct. 16/3 (advt.) English golf bag and clubs, also violin, for sale. golf cap n. ΚΠ 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 235/3 Men's Fancy Golf Caps at 21c. 1938 Time 5 Dec. 12 He crams a golf cap on his balding grey head. golf-course n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] links1728 golf-course1890 golf-links1891 course1893 golf-green1894 1890 Spectator 4 Oct. 438/1 Long stretches of turf..are indispensable for the formation of golf-courses. golf length n. ΚΠ 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. iii. 95 Goff-lengths, or the spaces between the first and last holes, are sometimes extended to the distance of two or three miles. golf match n. ΚΠ 1857 J. Blackwood Let. 30 Apr. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) II. 324 If you saw me starting for a Golf match you would think my tastes..simple, if not even childish. 1926 P. G. Wodehouse Heart of Goof ii. 60 I am playing a very important golf-match this morning. 1971 ‘H. Howard’ Murder One xiii. 157 He wanted to get away..because he had a golf match at two. golf-player n. ΚΠ 1881 Sportsman's Year-bk. 256 Prince Henry, the elder brother of Charles I, was a zealous golf player. golf-stick n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club golf-club1508 golf-stick1839 1839 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 85 He..made a goff-stick with a hollow handle. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxi. 206 Each of them had a walrus-rib for a golph or shinny stick. C2. golf ball n. (a) a ball used in playing golf; (b) (a colloquial name given to) a spherical ball in certain kinds of electric typewriter on which all the type is mounted and which is caused to move to present the required symbol to the paper. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > ball golf ball1545 globe1862 society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriter type > type-ball golf ball1966 type-ball1971 1545 Aberdeen Reg. V. 19 (Jam.) Thre dossoun and thre goif bawis. 1637 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 78 He sauld twa of the golf ballis to Thomas Urquhart. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. i. 17 I'll get him off on the instant like a gowff ba'. 1966 Gloss. Automated Typesetting (ed. 2) 87 The IBM 72 electric typewriter characterized by its stationary platen and the concentration of all type characters on a single, interchangeable globe-shaped unit called a typing element..; sometimes referred to as the ‘golf ball’ typewriter. 1969 Computers & Humanities Sept. i. 76 This arrangement allows more flexibility than a line printer, since one can change the type ‘golfball’ but it is very, very slow. 1970 British Printer Dec. 73/2 Hard copy is produced by the IBM ‘golfball’. 1970 A. Cameron et al. Computers & Old Eng. Concordances 32 There is a machine which will read the product of a selectric typewriter with a special golfball. golf cart n. (a) a trolley for carrying golf clubs; (b) a motorized cart for transporting golfers and their equipment. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > motorized cart for golfers and equipment golf cart1951 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > wheelbarrow or handcart > for carrying golf-clubs golf cart1951 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > cart golf cart1951 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > cart > for clubs golf buggy1930 golf cart1951 caddie-car1961 1951 Golfers' Year II. 136 (advt.) No other golf cart has the following unique features. 1963 Golf World Jan. 42/2 An American-style golf cart designed to carry both you and your clubs might seem of little use on Britain's courses. 1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 17 July (1970) 183 We had two swift and pleasant hours—and then..into the hangar where the white golf cart waited for us. 1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird iii. 28 He had already hired an electric golf-cart, a sorry sight. golf-club n. (see club n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club golf-club1508 golf-stick1839 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > player > club golf-club1834 1508 Reg. Privy Seal Scot. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 108* Slaughter committed ‘on suddantie’, by the stroke of a ‘golf-club’. 1753 Scots Mag. Aug. 421/2 The city of Edinburgh's silver goff-club was played for Aug. 4. a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) ix. 343 Garrick..had told us to bring golf clubs and balls. 1834 in R. Clark Golf (1875) 79 The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. 1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 325 The Royal Liverpool Golf Club. 1931 T. S. Eliot Triumphal March Those are the golf club Captains, these the Scouts. 1965 A. S. Graham Golf Club x. 64 Every golf club has its distinct golfing types. golf-croquet n. (see quot. 1960). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > games resembling croquet > [noun] closh1477 lawn billiards1873 troco1882 roque1899 golf-croquet1920 1920 W. Deeping Second Youth xv To play them at golf-croquet. 1960 E. P. C. Cotter Tackle Croquet this Way i. 13 A game of Golf Croquet. This is a game in which the hoops are treated as ‘holes’, as in Golf. The balls play in sequence..and the first ball to run the hoop wins the hole and then all proceed to the next hoop. golf-drive n. a drive (drive n. 8) in golf; also, a similar stroke in Cricket. ΚΠ 1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Feb. 12/2 In such a stroke as a golf-drive the arm that reaches its fullest extension first is almost certain to be the dominating factor in regulating impact. 1913 Daily Mail 7 July 9/1 A plucky forcing batsman, rather partial to the on ‘golf drive’. golf-green n. = golf-links n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] links1728 golf-course1890 golf-links1891 course1893 golf-green1894 1894 (title) Golf greens of England and Wales. golf-links n. the ground on which golf is played. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] links1728 golf-course1890 golf-links1891 course1893 golf-green1894 1877 J. Blackwood Let. 27 Mar. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) VI. 357 I am going..to North Berwick... It is a pretty country and there is a Golfing Links.] 1891 H. G. Hutchinson (title) Famous golf links. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv. 174 He seemed to spend all his spare time frolicking with the man on the golf-links. golf shot n. a shot in golf. ΚΠ 1903 H. D. G. Leveson-Gower in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket xi. 352 ‘You want the golf shot?’.. He went to the wicket and made ninety. golf-widow n. a woman whose husband spends much of his spare time playing golf. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife whose husband is absent widow1447 grass widow1822 wife-widow1875 golf-widow1898 1898 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Dec. 180 Why should there be any such thing as a golf widow? Nobody ever heard of a golf widower. 1928 M. H. Weseen Crowell's Dict. Eng. Gram. 274 Golf widow, humorous colloquial name for a woman whose husband spends much time playing golf and little time at home. 1965 Punch 19 May 725/1 At the last census, there were more stamp-widows than golf-widows. Derivatives golfist n. a golfer; a devotee of golf. ΚΠ 1902 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 2/3 Tax golfists: What a lot you'll make By fining them each time they swear! Categories » golfite n. a golfer, devotee of golf. Draft additions March 2017 golf buggy n. = golf cart n. (b) at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > cart > for clubs golf buggy1930 golf cart1951 caddie-car1961 1930 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 16 July 12/2 Garry O'Reair has a new golf buggy. 2008 B. Wilkinson Me 1 Arthritis 0 167 Back home golf buggies were reserved for the rich and famous or prestigious courses I was never entitled to play, but here they were as common as the number of folks walking the links back in Scotland. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). golfv.¹ Brit. /ɡɒlf/, U.S. /ɡɔlf/, /ɡɑlf/ Etymology: < golf n. intransitive. To play golf. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (intransitive)] golfa1805 a1805 [see golfing n. at Derivatives]. 1883 Standard 16 Nov. 5/2 A General Officer who Golfed. 1888 R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Feb. 271/2 You might golf if you wanted. Derivatives ˈgolfing n. also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [adjective] golfinga1805 a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) ix. 343 We crossed the river to the golfing-ground. 1866 D. M. Mulock Noble Life xvii. 299 Coming in from a long golfing match. 1867 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 490 When the golfing day is done. 1880 Daily Tel. 4 Oct. Statutes were promulgated..against golfing. 1891 D. Wilson Right Hand 139 Sets of golfing drivers and clubs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † golfv.² Etymology: Imitative. Scottish. Obsolete. intransitive. Of a pig: To grunt or snort, as in rage. Only in present participle and verbal noun. ΚΠ 1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow ii. 179 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 301 Thay war ourthrawin..For sory swyne for thair golfing affraid. 1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 157 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 286 Thay come golfand full grim Mony long tuthit bore [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1457v.¹a1805v.²1568
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golfn.

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golfv.1

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† golfv.2

golfv.¹

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