rugbyn.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɡbi/, U.S.

/ˈrəɡbi/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Rugby.

Etymology: < the name of Rugby School in Warwickshire, where the game developed in the 19th cent. Compare rugby football n.

I. Compounds.

a. attributive. Designating or relating to a form of football played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand.Recorded earliest in rugby football n.Early instances refer to the game of football played at Rugby School. Later examples refer to the game played according to the rules developed at Rugby, regardless of where it is played. Now usually used without any conscious reference to Rugby School.In the game, points are scored by grounding the ball behind the opponents' try line (thereby scoring a try) or by kicking it between the two posts and over the crossbar of their goal. Rules vary between the two main forms of the game: see rugby league n. and rugby union n.

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1852 Bell's Life in London 17 Oct. 6/2 I hear that many speculations are hazarded to guess who puts these Rugby football pieces in Bell.

1864 Field 446/2 The Rugby Game. Will a good Rugby authority settle the following points in their game?

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 367/2 The tumbles and scrimmages incidental to the Rugby code.

1906 D. Gallaher & W. J. Stead Compl. Rugby Footballer xix. 265 There were fifty thousand people present—by far the biggest attendance of spectators we had ever seen at a Rugby match.

1922 Amer. Oxonian Oct. 205 He is prominent among Englishmen for his work on the college Rugby Team both this year and last.

1959 Times 22 Sept. 12/6 I stared at the moth-eaten Rugby jersey and shorts in bewilderment.

1976 Western Mail (Cardiff) 27 Nov. Mid-Wales Howells Cup first round rugby tie with Mid-Glamorgan..has been postponed.

2009 Fiji Times (Nexis) 12 Dec. 94 The players are requested to bring their training shoes, gym towel, pocket sulu, bula shirt, polo T-shirt, rugby boots and toiletries.

b. Forming objective and parasynthetic compounds of sense 4, as rugby-loving, rugby-minded, rugby player, etc.

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1883 Chronicle (Univ. Michigan) 20 Jan. 97/2 One of the best Rugby players who ever put his toe into the elliptical leather.

1921 Times 13 Apr. 5/4 Some undoubtedly brilliant players..deserved the admiration and thanks of the Rugby-loving public.

1959 Times 21 Sept. 3/6 In this community of Rugby-minded souls every man..could readily appreciate the virtues of an attacking as against a defensive policy.

1961 Times 7 Apr. 20/7 In the matter of crowd behaviour, in fact, the Rugby-watching public can in no way afford to be smug.

1985 Amer. Jrnl. Industr. Med. 8 403 Bacterial pyoderma may occur in wrestlers and rugby players, especially at sites of abrasion.

2007 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Oct. 3 Although my rugby-playing days are over, I still enjoy watching it.

2. rugby shirt n. (a) North American a dress shirt in a style associated with Rugby School (now rare); (b) a pullover shirt worn for playing rugby, traditionally made of thick cotton and having a collar with a short row of buttons which closes at the neck; (now also) such a shirt worn as or designed for casual wear.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other

bloody shirta1586

ruffle shirt1749

ruffled shirt1754

dicky1781

overshirt1805

camise1812

mill tog1821

boiled shirt1853

Crimean shirt1853

Crimea shirt1857

shirtwaist1859

shirt1867

polo shirt1887

zephyr1887

Ghost Shirt1890

Henley1890

negligée shirt1895

turtle-neck1897

rugby shirt1902

bush shirt1909

tunic shirt1918

safari shirt1921

button-down1924

thousand-miler1929

aloha shirt1936

buba1937

zoot shirt1942

Hawaiian shirt1955

sweater-shirt1964

beach shirt1966

kimono shirt1968

dashiki1969

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > clothing

scrum cap1896

rugby shirt1902

1902 Ann. Rep. State N.Y. Comm. Lunacy 1900–1 1272 (list) Aprons, cooks'..Shirts, drill..Shirts, Rugby [etc.].

1934 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 27 Apr. 16 d/3 (advt.) Boys' Rugby Shirts, 1.65 with wide pointed collars and no neck band!

1946 Times 1 Aug. 2/3 Play which, apart from the Rugby shirts, was rather colourless.

1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) iii. 37 The Salesman spread out an impressive..array of undershirts, underpants, knee-high wool socks..and red Rugby shirts.

2002 H. Ritchie Friday Night Club (2003) i. vii. 63 Ian looks up to see a bulky bloke in a stupidly hooped rugby shirt pointing to the adjacent chair.

a. rugby tackle n. a tackle in the game of rugby in which the arms are used to bring an opposing player down; (in extended use) any act of bringing a person to the ground by means of such a tackle or similar action.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > specific types of physical attack

charge1857

shoulder charge1930

stomping1958

rugby tackle1959

piping1971

1908 School June 163/2 You find half your house more concerned with keeping abreast of the latest fashion..than in cultivating a Rugby tackle or soccer charge.

1959 F. Guest Indian Cavalryman viii. 97 The subaltern, who was an athletic young man, immediately dived at the men in a Rugby tackle.

1998 K. Sampson Extra Time 70 I fall heavily, poleaxed, slam-dunked onto the greasy turf by a hefty copper's high-velocity rugby tackle.

b. rugby-tackle v. transitive to perform a rugby tackle on (a person); to bring (a person) down by or as if by means of a rugby tackle.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)]

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to set on ——c1290

saila1300

to turn one's handc1325

lashc1330

to set against ——c1330

impugnc1384

offendc1385

weighc1386

checka1400

to lay at?a1400

havec1400

to set at ——c1430

fraya1440

rehetea1450

besail1460

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tuilyie1487

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enterprise?1510

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lay1580

tilt1589

to fall aboard——1593

yoke1596

to let into1598

to fall foul1602

attack1655

do1780

to go in at1812

to pitch into ——1823

tackle1828

vampire1832

bushwhack1837

to go for ——1838

take1864

pile1867

volcano1867

to set about ——1879

vampirize1888

to get stuck into1910

to take to ——1911

weigh1941

rugby-tackle1967

rugger-tackle1967

1967 Times 10 Apr. 6/3 The refusal of the referee to give a penalty when Greenhoff was blatantly Rugby-tackled by Dowd.

1982 S. Townsend Secret Diary Adrian Mole 54 My father rugby-tackled him by the laurel bush.

2003 C. Lewis Dict. Playground Slang 266 One person tries to rugby tackle one of the other players.

II. Simple uses.

4. The game of rugby football.On the origins, development, and rules of rugby, see sense 1a.The simple form is used to refer to either rugby league or rugby union, depending on the context. In general, however, and esp. in certain regions, such as Australia, it is more often understood as referring to the game played according to the union code, with rugby league denominated in full, or by the terms league or football. Cf. rugby league n., rugby union n.

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

football1863

rugby1870

rugby football1882

rugger1889

footy1900

1870 Bell's Life in London 29 Jan. 7/4 Amongst those clubs which play ‘Rugby’ pure and simple, we may mention..Woolwich Academy and Sandhurst Military College, [etc.].

1880 Chronicle (Univ. Michigan) 16 Oct. 28/2 Every student in the University is requested and urged to come out and play Rugby from two to four in the afternoon.

1930 J. Buchan Castle Gay i. 9 Rugby in my opinion is not a game for Christians. It's fair savagery.

1977 Western Mail (Cardiff) 5 Mar. 18/5 Modern rugby is a game of pressure and most of this is upon the halves, from set pieces and loose play.

1988 W. Hutchings Plays of David Storey i. 12 He continued to play rugby for Leeds, commuting by train for the matches.

2003 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 28 Dec. 7 Rugby was dismissed as a public school affectation, as a game played by men with funny-shaped balls.

5. The playing of the game of rugby; the game played to a specified standard or in a specified way.

ΚΠ

1885 Chronicle (Univ. Michigan) 9 May 297/1 There will be no ‘Rugby’ to-day, as the Universities objected to the rules by which the opposing nine desired to play.

1908 Badminton Mag. Dec. 638 Under the delusion that they can play good Rugby without any training during the week.

1960 V. Jenkins Lions Down Under xii. 173 The accepted New Zealand pattern for match-winning rugby.

1976 Alyn & Deeside Observer 10 Dec. 3/7 In the second half..Chester played some excellent rugby.

2006 Heat 18 Mar. 17/1 He's getting more column inches for being her boyfriend than for his rugby.

Derivatives

ˈrugbyist n. a player of or enthusiast for rugby.

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1906 Manitoba Free Press 6 Oct. 6/2 (heading) Rough Rider rugbyist on the Winnipeg team to meet the Oarsmen.

1934 Canad. Florist 29 313/2 [He] was a prominent rugbyist until an accident forced him to join the cheering squad.

2006 South Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 3 Nov. 54 This column is meant to inject a little girly humour to a predominantly male orientated sport without getting a tongue lashing from the hardcore rugbyists if I get something wrong.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rugby
释义	rugbyn. Brit. /ˈrʌɡbi/, U.S. /ˈrəɡbi/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Rugby. Etymology: < the name of Rugby School in Warwickshire, where the game developed in the 19th cent. Compare rugby football n. I. Compounds. 1. a. attributive. Designating or relating to a form of football played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand.Recorded earliest in rugby football n.Early instances refer to the game of football played at Rugby School. Later examples refer to the game played according to the rules developed at Rugby, regardless of where it is played. Now usually used without any conscious reference to Rugby School.In the game, points are scored by grounding the ball behind the opponents' try line (thereby scoring a try) or by kicking it between the two posts and over the crossbar of their goal. Rules vary between the two main forms of the game: see rugby league n. and rugby union n. ΚΠ 1852 Bell's Life in London 17 Oct. 6/2 I hear that many speculations are hazarded to guess who puts these Rugby football pieces in Bell. 1864 Field 446/2 The Rugby Game. Will a good Rugby authority settle the following points in their game? 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 367/2 The tumbles and scrimmages incidental to the Rugby code. 1906 D. Gallaher & W. J. Stead Compl. Rugby Footballer xix. 265 There were fifty thousand people present—by far the biggest attendance of spectators we had ever seen at a Rugby match. 1922 Amer. Oxonian Oct. 205 He is prominent among Englishmen for his work on the college Rugby Team both this year and last. 1959 Times 22 Sept. 12/6 I stared at the moth-eaten Rugby jersey and shorts in bewilderment. 1976 Western Mail (Cardiff) 27 Nov. Mid-Wales Howells Cup first round rugby tie with Mid-Glamorgan..has been postponed. 2009 Fiji Times (Nexis) 12 Dec. 94 The players are requested to bring their training shoes, gym towel, pocket sulu, bula shirt, polo T-shirt, rugby boots and toiletries. b. Forming objective and parasynthetic compounds of sense 4, as rugby-loving, rugby-minded, rugby player, etc. ΚΠ 1883 Chronicle (Univ. Michigan) 20 Jan. 97/2 One of the best Rugby players who ever put his toe into the elliptical leather. 1921 Times 13 Apr. 5/4 Some undoubtedly brilliant players..deserved the admiration and thanks of the Rugby-loving public. 1959 Times 21 Sept. 3/6 In this community of Rugby-minded souls every man..could readily appreciate the virtues of an attacking as against a defensive policy. 1961 Times 7 Apr. 20/7 In the matter of crowd behaviour, in fact, the Rugby-watching public can in no way afford to be smug. 1985 Amer. Jrnl. Industr. Med. 8 403 Bacterial pyoderma may occur in wrestlers and rugby players, especially at sites of abrasion. 2007 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Oct. 3 Although my rugby-playing days are over, I still enjoy watching it. 2. rugby shirt n. (a) North American a dress shirt in a style associated with Rugby School (now rare); (b) a pullover shirt worn for playing rugby, traditionally made of thick cotton and having a collar with a short row of buttons which closes at the neck; (now also) such a shirt worn as or designed for casual wear. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other bloody shirta1586 ruffle shirt1749 ruffled shirt1754 dicky1781 overshirt1805 camise1812 mill tog1821 boiled shirt1853 Crimean shirt1853 Crimea shirt1857 shirtwaist1859 shirt1867 polo shirt1887 zephyr1887 Ghost Shirt1890 Henley1890 negligée shirt1895 turtle-neck1897 rugby shirt1902 bush shirt1909 tunic shirt1918 safari shirt1921 button-down1924 thousand-miler1929 aloha shirt1936 buba1937 zoot shirt1942 Hawaiian shirt1955 sweater-shirt1964 beach shirt1966 kimono shirt1968 dashiki1969 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > clothing scrum cap1896 rugby shirt1902 1902 Ann. Rep. State N.Y. Comm. Lunacy 1900–1 1272 (list) Aprons, cooks'..Shirts, drill..Shirts, Rugby [etc.]. 1934 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 27 Apr. 16 d/3 (advt.) Boys' Rugby Shirts, 1.65 with wide pointed collars and no neck band! 1946 Times 1 Aug. 2/3 Play which, apart from the Rugby shirts, was rather colourless. 1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) iii. 37 The Salesman spread out an impressive..array of undershirts, underpants, knee-high wool socks..and red Rugby shirts. 2002 H. Ritchie Friday Night Club (2003) i. vii. 63 Ian looks up to see a bulky bloke in a stupidly hooped rugby shirt pointing to the adjacent chair. 3. a. rugby tackle n. a tackle in the game of rugby in which the arms are used to bring an opposing player down; (in extended use) any act of bringing a person to the ground by means of such a tackle or similar action. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > specific types of physical attack charge1857 shoulder charge1930 stomping1958 rugby tackle1959 piping1971 1908 School June 163/2 You find half your house more concerned with keeping abreast of the latest fashion..than in cultivating a Rugby tackle or soccer charge. 1959 F. Guest Indian Cavalryman viii. 97 The subaltern, who was an athletic young man, immediately dived at the men in a Rugby tackle. 1998 K. Sampson Extra Time 70 I fall heavily, poleaxed, slam-dunked onto the greasy turf by a hefty copper's high-velocity rugby tackle. b. rugby-tackle v. transitive to perform a rugby tackle on (a person); to bring (a person) down by or as if by means of a rugby tackle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] assail?c1225 to set on ——c1290 saila1300 to turn one's handc1325 lashc1330 to set against ——c1330 impugnc1384 offendc1385 weighc1386 checka1400 to lay at?a1400 havec1400 to set at ——c1430 fraya1440 rehetea1450 besail1460 fray1465 tuilyie1487 assaulta1500 enterprise?1510 invade1513 sturt1513 attempt1546 lay1580 tilt1589 to fall aboard——1593 yoke1596 to let into1598 to fall foul1602 attack1655 do1780 to go in at1812 to pitch into ——1823 tackle1828 vampire1832 bushwhack1837 to go for ——1838 take1864 pile1867 volcano1867 to set about ——1879 vampirize1888 to get stuck into1910 to take to ——1911 weigh1941 rugby-tackle1967 rugger-tackle1967 1967 Times 10 Apr. 6/3 The refusal of the referee to give a penalty when Greenhoff was blatantly Rugby-tackled by Dowd. 1982 S. Townsend Secret Diary Adrian Mole 54 My father rugby-tackled him by the laurel bush. 2003 C. Lewis Dict. Playground Slang 266 One person tries to rugby tackle one of the other players. II. Simple uses. 4. The game of rugby football.On the origins, development, and rules of rugby, see sense 1a.The simple form is used to refer to either rugby league or rugby union, depending on the context. In general, however, and esp. in certain regions, such as Australia, it is more often understood as referring to the game played according to the union code, with rugby league denominated in full, or by the terms league or football. Cf. rugby league n., rugby union n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] football1863 rugby1870 rugby football1882 rugger1889 footy1900 1870 Bell's Life in London 29 Jan. 7/4 Amongst those clubs which play ‘Rugby’ pure and simple, we may mention..Woolwich Academy and Sandhurst Military College, [etc.]. 1880 Chronicle (Univ. Michigan) 16 Oct. 28/2 Every student in the University is requested and urged to come out and play Rugby from two to four in the afternoon. 1930 J. Buchan Castle Gay i. 9 Rugby in my opinion is not a game for Christians. It's fair savagery. 1977 Western Mail (Cardiff) 5 Mar. 18/5 Modern rugby is a game of pressure and most of this is upon the halves, from set pieces and loose play. 1988 W. Hutchings Plays of David Storey i. 12 He continued to play rugby for Leeds, commuting by train for the matches. 2003 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 28 Dec. 7 Rugby was dismissed as a public school affectation, as a game played by men with funny-shaped balls. 5. The playing of the game of rugby; the game played to a specified standard or in a specified way. ΚΠ 1885 Chronicle (Univ. Michigan) 9 May 297/1 There will be no ‘Rugby’ to-day, as the Universities objected to the rules by which the opposing nine desired to play. 1908 Badminton Mag. Dec. 638 Under the delusion that they can play good Rugby without any training during the week. 1960 V. Jenkins Lions Down Under xii. 173 The accepted New Zealand pattern for match-winning rugby. 1976 Alyn & Deeside Observer 10 Dec. 3/7 In the second half..Chester played some excellent rugby. 2006 Heat 18 Mar. 17/1 He's getting more column inches for being her boyfriend than for his rugby. Derivatives ˈrugbyist n. a player of or enthusiast for rugby. ΚΠ 1906 Manitoba Free Press 6 Oct. 6/2 (heading) Rough Rider rugbyist on the Winnipeg team to meet the Oarsmen. 1934 Canad. Florist 29 313/2 [He] was a prominent rugbyist until an accident forced him to join the cheering squad. 2006 South Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 3 Nov. 54 This column is meant to inject a little girly humour to a predominantly male orientated sport without getting a tongue lashing from the hardcore rugbyists if I get something wrong. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1852
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