单词 | wogball |
释义 | > as lemmaswogball wogball n. Australian (a name for) Association Football. So called because of the sport's largely European immigrant following in Australia. ΚΠ 1974 Austral. Q. Dec. 85 Australian children refer to soccer as ‘wog ball.’ 1987 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 2 June It's time for women's soccer to shed the image of ‘wogball played by macho females.’ 2014 Ballarat (Austral.) Courier (Nexis) 12 June 13 It has been a difficult road for association football in Australia... It was seen as an immigrants' sport and termed ‘wogball’—a racial slur. < as lemmas |
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