stick

en-noun

stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)

→ Catalan: estic

→ Italian: stick

→ Korean: 스틱 (seutik)

→ Portuguese: stique, estique

→ Sranan Tongo: tiki

From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”). Related to stigma.

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better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

(sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically:

(field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.


hook

en-verb

hook (third-person singular simple present hooks, present participle hooking, simple past and past participle hooked)

hooks (present singular third-person)
hooking (participle present)
hooked (participle past)
hooked (past)

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.

(field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)

koukata

hockey: to engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking


goalie

goalie (third-person singular simple present goalies, present participle goalieing, simple past and past participle goalied)

goalies (present singular third-person)
goalieing (participle present)
goalied (participle past)
goalied (past)

Clipping of goalkeeper, goaltender + -ie.

(ice hockey, colloquial, intransitive) To act as a goalie, to tend the goals, to mind the net.


nutmeg

en-noun

nutmeg (countable and uncountable, plural nutmegs)

→ Irish: noitmig

→ Japanese: ナツメグ (natsumegu)

→ Maori: natimeke

From Middle English notemege, notemuge, a partial translation of Medieval Latin nux muga, a variant of Medieval Latin nux muscata (“musky nut”). Compare also Old French nois mugede.
For the term used in various ball sports, see Wikipedia.

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The same applied to Loftus-Cheek, who grew into the game after a quiet start and even had the impudence to slip the ball through Marcel Halstenberg’s legs in the first half. Nutmegs aside, Loftus-Cheek also came up with one of England’s best passes of the night, sending Jamie Vardy through the middle at the end of the first half.

2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London):

(soccer, field hockey or ice hockey, basketball) The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.


cage

→ Zulu: ikheji

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

(field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.

field hockey or ice hockey; water polo; field hockey or ice hockey; water polo


slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

(field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.


tomahawk

From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“ax”).

(field hockey) A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.


Test match

(rugby union, field hockey) An international match between the teams of two nations.

rugby union; field hockey; rugby union; field hockey


turning

From Middle English turnyng, turnynge, from Old English tyrning, turnung, equivalent to turn + -ing.

(field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.


fullback

(field hockey) A defensive player who assists the goalie in preventing the opposing team from scoring.


D

From the shape of the upper case letter "D".

(field hockey) The penalty arc on a hockey field.


halfback

From half + back, in reference to position on the field of play; compare fullback.
In the sense of someone who moves to Florida and then to a more temperate climate, from moving "half way back"

(field sports) A player who occupies one of these positions.

(field hockey) A player in the halfback position, with both offensive and defensive roles.

field sports; field hockey; field hockey


bully

en-noun

bully (countable and uncountable, plural bullies)

From 1530, as a term of endearment, probably a diminutive ( + -y) of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”), from Middle Dutch boel, boele (“brother; lover”), from Old Dutch *buolo, from Proto-Germanic *bōlô (compare Middle Low German bôle (“brother”), Middle High German buole (“brother; close relative; close relation”) (whence German Buhle (“lover”)), Old English Bōla, Bōlla (personal name), diminutive of expressive *bō- (“brother, father”). Compare also Latvian bālinš (“brother”). More at boy.
The term acquired a negative connotation during the 17th century; first ‘noisy, blustering fellow’ then ‘a person who is cruel to others’. Possibly influenced by bull (“male cattle”) or via the ‘prostitute's minder’ sense. The positive senses are dated, but survive in phrases such as bully pulpit.

onomatopoeic

expressive

(field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.


penalty shootout

en-noun

penalty shootout (plural penalty shootouts)

This was an eighth game without defeat, penalty shootouts aside, over Hodgson's brief tenure but, by the end, this whole occasion had been stripped of any competitive nature.

2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:

(soccer, field hockey) A series of penalties (penalty kicks in soccer), taken to decide a winner after a game has resulted in a tie and extra time has been played.


hockey stick

The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 184:

(British, field hockey) A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end.


green card

(field hockey) A warning card, given to a player for an infraction of the rules. A further infraction may warrant a yellow card or red card.


field hockey

A form of hockey played on a grassed pitch with a hard rubber ball instead of a puck.


end zone

(field hockey) the portion of the rink behind the goal line.


back line

(field hockey) The line running across the goal to the corners of the playing field.


stickhandling

(ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse) Skillful manipulation of the puck or ball with a player's stick, allowing the player to maintain control of the puck or ball.


stickhandle

en-verb

stickhandle (third-person singular simple present stickhandles, present participle stickhandling, simple past and past participle stickhandled)

stickhandles (present singular third-person)
stickhandling (participle present)
stickhandled (participle past)
stickhandled (past)

Kovalev regained possession of the puck and stickhandled at full speed into neutral-zone open ice.

2008 April 17, Dave Stubbs, “Lots of life left in Bruins”, in The Gazette, Montreal, retrieved 2008-05-13:

(transitive, intransitive, ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse) To maintain individual possession of the puck or ball by controlling it with movements of one's stick, especially to do so in a skillful manner.


netminding

He said he would make sure the Hall's selection committee included women, academics, legislators and representatives from across the republic rather than just Prague -- an approach as unorthodox as his Slinky-for-a-spine netminding style.

2009 January 11, Jeff Z. Klein, Stu Hackel, “Canucks Are Bolstered With Arrival of Sundin”, in New York Times:

(ice hockey, field hockey) goalkeeping, goaltending


hit-out

(sports, field hockey) A penalty shot, awarded when the ball is deemed to have been sent out of play deliberately.


offwing

The Czechoslovaks' stick work is exquisite, and they also exploit their use of the "offwing" — a right-handed shooter, for example, will play the left wing.

1980, Gerald Eskenazi, Miracle on ice, page 16:

If they have the ability, it is recommended players play their offwing, e.g., right-handed shots play left-side positions ( P1, P2, P4).

It would require moving Nylander to his offwing on the left, from which he can be lethal with his shot.

2019, Wilbert Timmermans, “Toronto Maple Leafs: Solving the John Tavares Conundrum”, in Fansided:

(field hockey or ice hockey) The wing that is on the opposite side to the player's dominant hand.


penalty corner

(field hockey) a particular penalty awarded against the defending team in certain circumstances


snap shot

The other maior shot is the snap shot. It is like a cousin of the wrist shot. It is a little faster than the wrist shot and requires less movement with the stick.

2014, Chris Peters, Girls' Hockey, →ISBN, page 15:

(field hockey or ice hockey) A quick shot executed by moving the stick parallel to the ground and ending with a snap of the wrist.


long corner

(field hockey) A free hit taken from by the opposing team's corner flag, after the defending team has hit the ball behind the back line.


stickhandler

(ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse) A player who is skilled in stickhandling.


field hockey player

en-noun

field hockey player (plural field hockey players)

One who plays field hockey, especially professionally.


roller sledge hockey

(field hockey or ice hockey) A parasport, an adapted form of roller hockey, and a floor version of (ice) sledge hockey, where disabled athletes rid atop roller sledges (roller sleds), and propel themselves with a pair of roller sledge hockey sticks, that function as canes/"walking sticks" and hockey sticks. Various variants of roller sledge hockey use different configurations of wheels.


bully-off

(field hockey) A method of starting or restarting a game whereby two opposing players face off with the ball between them, clash sticks three times, and then attempt to be first to the ball.


bully off

en-verb

bully off (third-person singular simple present bullies off, present participle bullying off, simple past and past participle bullied off)

bullies off (present singular third-person)
bullying off (participle present)
bullied off (participle past)
bullied off (past)

(field hockey) To begin or restart a game by means of a bully-off.


backstick

(field hockey, often attributively) An illegal shot in which a player strikes the ball with the rounded face of the stick in field hockey.