hockeyhawkeyhorkeyn.1
/ˈhɒki/, U.S. /ˈhɑki/ /ˈhɔːkɪ/ The old name in the eastern counties of England for the feast at harvest-home.
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?1567 [see Compounds 1].
1600 Nashe Summer's Last Will & Test. in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VIII. 49 Hooky, hooky, we have shorn, And we have bound; And we have brought Harvest Home to town.
1676 W. Winstanley Poor Robin sig. B4 Hoacky is brought Home with hallowin, Boys for plumb-cake The Cart following.
1806 R. Bloomfield Horkey Advt. The man who..goes foremost through the harvest with the scythe or the sickle, is honoured with the title of Lord, and at the Horkey, or harvest-home feast, collects what he can.
1812 E. D. Clarke Trav. Var. Countries II. viii. 229 At the Hawkie, as it is called, or Harvest-Home, I have seen a clown dressed in woman's clothes, having his face painted, his head decorated with ears of corn.
1822 J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk 6 The hockay, or harvest home..begins to fall into disuse.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hawkey, the feast at harvest home.
1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1168 This health-drinking..finishes the horkey.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as hockey cry, hockey load, hockey night.
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?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter cxxvi. 376 He home returnes: wyth hocky cry, With sheaues full lade abundantly.
1806 R. Bloomfield Horkey iv 'Twas Farmer Cheerum's Horkey night.
1806 R. Bloomfield Horkey xiii Home came the jovial Horkey load, Last of the whole year's crop; And Grace amongst the green boughs rode Right plump upon the top.
1806 R. Bloomfield Horkey xvi Farmer Cheerum went..And broach'd the Horkey beer.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hawkey-load, the last load of the crop, which..was always led home on the evening of the hawkey, with much rustic pageantry.
1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1166 The last, or ‘horkey load’ (as it is here [sc. in Norfolk] called) is decorated with flags and streamers.
C2.
hockey cake n. the seed cake distributed at a harvest-home.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > harvest home
hockey cake1606
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xvi. ciii. 407 I'le duly keepe for thy delight Rock-Monday, and the Wake, Haue Shrouings, Christmas-gambols, with the Hokie & Seed-cake.
1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. M7v Rocke Munday,..Christmas Eue, the Hoky, or seed Cake, these he yearely keepes: yet holdes them no reliques of Popery.
1712 Poor Robin Harvest is done, therefore, wife, make For harvest men a hoaky cake.
1731 N. Salmon New Surv. Eng. II. Hertf. 415 Hockey Cake is that which is distributed to the people at Harvest Home.
hockey cart n. = hock-cart n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > carrying last load of harvest
hock-cart1648
hockey cart1731
1731 N. Salmon New Surv. Eng. II. Hertf. 415 The Hockey cart is that which brings the last Corn, and the Children rejoycing with Boughs in their Hands, with which the Horses also are attired.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hockeyn.2
/ˈhɒki/, U.S. /ˈhɑki/ 1.
a. An outdoor game of ball played with sticks or clubs hooked or curved at one end, with which the players of each side drive the ball towards the goal at the other end of the ground. Also called bandy and shinty.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun]
hockey1527
bandya1672
field hockey1895
1527 Galway Stat. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 402 The horlinge of the litill balle with hockie stickes or staves.
1785 W. Cowper Let. 5 Nov. (1981) II. 392 The boys at Olney have likewise a very entertaining sport, which commences annually upon this day [5th Nov.]. They call it Hockey, and it consists in dashing each other with mud, and the windows also.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Hawkey, the name of a game played by several boys on each side with sticks, called hawkey-bats, and a ball..W. Sussex.
1842 G. T. Vigne Trav. Kashmir (1844) II. 289 At Shighur I first saw the game of the Chaughán..It is in fact hocky on horseback..The ball is called in Tibiti, ‘Pulu’.
1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 703 Shinty in Scotland, Hockey in England, and Hurling in Ireland seem to be very much the same out-of-door sport.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 408 Kane saw the children in Smith's Sound playing hockey on the ice.
b. North American. = ice hockey n.The older game is referred to as field hockey.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > [noun]
ice hockey1868
hockey1895
puck chasing1911
1895 Rat Portage (Ont.) News 11 Jan. 1/2 Hockey is the most popular winter sport in Canada, taking the place of lacrosse.
1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Jan. 2/1 The first hockey match of the season was played here between Rossland and Nelson teams.
1953 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. 46 138/2 The children maintain their own open air hockey rink on the ice of Green River.
1969 J. D. A. Widdowson & H. Halpert in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 162 I dressed in a hockey suit.
2. (U.S.) The stick or club used in this game: cf. bandy n.1 5, shinty n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > [noun] > equipment
hockey1839
puck1886
biscuit1925
1839 J. Abbott Caleb in Town ii. The Hawkies 38 Now, a hawkey is a small, round stick, about as long as a man's cane, with a crook in the lower end, so that a boy can hit balls and little stones with it, when lying upon the ground. A good hawky is a great prize to a Boston boy.
1866 Harvard Mem. Biog., J. Savage I. 329 I remember him as yesterday, full of fun and courage, with his hockey in hand.
1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. viii. 117 Laurie..lying flat [on the ice] held Amy up by his arm and hockey.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as hockey-ball, hockey-bat, hockey-club, hockey-girl, hockey-match, hockey-playing, hockey-set, hockey-stick, hockey-tournament, hockey-type.
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1838Hawkey-bat [see sense 1a].
1884 Bath Jrnl. 16 Feb. 7/2 The festivities of the week include a hockey tournament.
1889 John Bull 2 Mar. 146/3 Hockey clubs now abound in the neighbourhood of London..while a Hockey Association has drawn up an admirable code of rules.
1906 Daily Chron. 4 Oct. 4/4 The ‘hockey set’ are as a rule some of the healthiest girls in college.
1909 Daily Chron. 5 May 9/2 ‘Dear me, no, Miss Bulliphant,’ she replied in what I call the downright, hockey-girl manner.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xiv. 211 Hockey-playing young women in Wiltshire.
1936 ‘R. West’ Thinking Reed xii. 435 You look awfully well now, well to the point of hockey-playing.
1959 Times 16 Feb. 11/5 The models are all looking much better fed, and without yet suggesting hockey-girls they don't any longer look like haughty hunger-strikers.
1961 Times 18 May 17/1 Miss Sian Reynolds as a hockey-girl St. Joan.
1963 J. T. Story Something for Nothing i. 17 I like the hockey type... I can't stand these sex-pots.
Draft additions June 2016
hockey mom n. North American colloquial a woman whose child plays, or whose children play, ice hockey; spec. one who is extremely active and enthusiastic in supporting her child or children's participation in the sport; cf. soccer mom n. at soccer n. Compounds 3.In the United States the term was widely popularized by association with Sarah Palin (b. 1964), governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009 and Republican candidate for vice president in 2008 (see quot. 2006).
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1956 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Feb. 7/5 (caption) Proud hockey mom... Mrs. Alice Richard beams as she holds a picture of her two famed sons, hockey stars Maurice and Henri.
1984 Stonewall (Manitoba) Interlake Spectator 9 May 22/3 To be a hockey mom..means you do everything moms do plus drive to the rink, work at the rink, and watch games and practices at the rink.
2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Nov. (Late ed.) p13 Ms. Palin, a social and fiscal conservative who calls herself a ‘hockey mom’.
2015 Hockey Weekly 14 Jan. 7/2 Although this idea of coping with situations is admirable, the reality is..you are a hockey mom! You are born to speak up!
Draft additions October 2021
hockey stick n. (a) a long, straight stick used either in field hockey (having a short curved hook or bend at its base) or ice hockey (having an inclined L-shaped blade at its base); (b) figurative (originally North American) a long period of little or no change or response esp. to an ongoing stimulus, followed by a sudden and sharp upturn, period of rapid growth, etc. (the graphic representation of which is likened to the L-shape of an ice hockey stick); frequently as a modifier.
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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > other
hockey stick1843
curve fitting1895
demand curve1936
zero crossing1941
matching1955
length1959
error bar1968
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > stick
stick1527
bandy?1630
hockey stick1843
1843 Berks. Chron. 21 Oct. The jury returned a verdict of ‘Accidental death by a casual blow from a hockey stick’.
1936 Daily Sketch 9 Mar. 11/2 When a girl leaves school..she throws away..her hockey sticks and her gym tunic.
1981 Environmental Health Perspectives 42 26/2 It is important to recognize that this hockey-stick curve does agree with two main features of the dose-response curve as many people picture it.
1988 B. Orser Orser: Skater's Life i. 12 To a large segment of Canadian males, the idea of skating without a hockey stick is an anomaly.
2008 Vanity Fair May 238/1 The vertiginous ‘hockey stick’ rise in mean global temperature since 1970 is something that can be explained by only one thing, a powerful new force in the climate system: us.
2020 D. Vince Manifesto x. 139 We're still at the bottom of the hockey stick in terms of electric car growth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hockeyn.3int.
/ˈhɒki/, U.S. /ˈhɑki/ North American slang (originally U.S. regional (chiefly south Midland)).
A. n.3
1. Excrement, dung (usually from a specified animal).The term was originally used esp. by children.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun]
gorec725
mixeOE
quedeeOE
turdeOE
dungOE
worthinga1225
dirta1300
drega1300
naturea1325
fen1340
ordurec1390
fimea1475
merd1486
stercory1496
avoidc1503
siegec1530
fex1540
excrement1541
hinder-fallings1561
gong1562
foil1565
voiding1577
pilgrim-salvec1580
egestion1583
shita1585
sir-reverence1592
purgament1597
filinga1622
faecesa1625
exclusion1646
faecality1653
tantadlin1654
surreverence1655
draught1659
excrementitiousness1660
jakes1701
old golda1704
dejection1728
dejecture1731
shitea1733
feculence1733
doll1825
crap1846
excreta1857
excretes1883
hockey1886
dejecta1887
job1899
number two1902
mess1903
ming1923
do1930
tomtit1930
pony1931
No. 21937
dog shit1944
Shinola1944
big job1945
biggie1953
doo-doo1954
doings1957
gick1959
pooh1960
pooh-pooh1962
dooky1965
poopy1970
whoopsie1973
pucky1980
jobbie1981
1886 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 17 37 Hockie is used in East Tennessee among little children, which may be connected with the original word ‘cacky’, as also the exclamation of disgust used by an older person to a child that has befouled itself.
1954 V. Randolph Pissing in Snow (1976) xxxii. 53 He went out to the privy and filled two big capsules with fresh hockey.
1958 C. Carlile As I was Young & Easy i. 28 My smile vanished when I saw I was standing almost ankle deep in chicken hocky.
2008 C. Hubbard Gabriel's Lady Prol. 7 Princess Lily turned up her pretty little nose as though I'd stepped in some horse hockey.
2. Rubbish, nonsense, lies. Often with modifier, esp. in bull hockey, horse hockey.Used or regarded as a euphemistic substitute for shit, bullshit, horse shit, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1931 G. S. Schuyler Black no More v. 78 ‘I thought from readin' th' papers..that th' law had closed up his places..’ ‘Oh, that's a lotta hockey.’
1990 CNN (Nexis) 15 Oct. This is plain bull-hockey say U.S. insurance executives. This study was done by rank amateurs who distorted the data.
2019 @jmatamusk_james 30 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) We can be angry about this horse hockey. We can vote!
B. int.
Expressing disagreement with or dismissal of a statement, idea, etc. Usually with modifier, esp. in bull hockey, horse hockey.Used or regarded as a euphemistic substitute for bullshit, horse shit, etc.Particularly outside the United States, the exclamation horse hockey is often associated with the character Colonel Sherman T. Potter in the U.S. television series M*A*S*H (1972–83).
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > nonsense! [interjection]
strawc1412
tilly-vallya1529
flam-flirt1590
fiddlestick1600
fiddle-faddle1671
stuff1701
snuff1725
fudge1766
fiddlededeea1784
rats1816
havers1825
humbug1825
gammon1827
rubbish1839
pickles1846
rot1846
skittle1864
slush1869
flapdoodle1878
quatsch1907
phooey1908
tommyrot1931
balls1938
no shit1939
bollocks1940
phonus-bolonus1955
hockey1961
leave it out!1969
1961 Hamburg (Iowa) Reporter 17 Aug. 1/1 Secretary Freeman..called the new law one of the most far reaching and significant changes in the history of agriculture. Horse hockey.
1975 J. Fritzell & E. Greenbaum M*A*S*H (Twentieth Cent. Fox TV script, Smithsonian Mus. Amer. Hist.) (final revision) 4th Ser. Episode 2. i. 17 Klinger: Colonel Potter, sir! Corporal Klinger. I'm Section 8, head to toe... I'm nuts. I should be out. Potter: Horse hockey! (beat) I've seen these dodges for forty years.
1996 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 11 Oct. p14 The book was touted as a serious challenge..to examine the serious issue of the death penalty. Bull hockey.
2018 Edson (Alberta) Leader (Nexis) 25 June a9 They got rid of their award winning cheesecake. When I asked company officials they said people don't eat dessert anymore. Horse hockey.
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