单词 | hockey-set |
释义 | > as lemmashockey-set 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. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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