Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hockey . - noun Same as
hockey . - noun A cow; specifically, a black and white cow; more especially, a cow of a dark color with a white stripe on the face.
- noun A stupid fellow; a clown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
hockey .
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- noun Obsolete form of
hockey .
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Examples
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The Wall Street Journal ran a front page feature on Kocur, mentioning that his right index finger knuckle would remain a flap of skin for the the entire "hawkey" season because of his constant punching.
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Oh, yes, doncha all know that there are one set of rules for Socialist Community Organizers and another for folksy, lipstick-besmirched hawkey mawms?
Think Progress » MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Mocks Sarah Palin By Writing ‘Cheat Sheet’ On Her Hand 2010
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If you say it "hackey" you give yourself away ... go for something closer to "hawkey" keeping the "aw" short in speech and you've got it.
words 2005
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Oh, yes, doncha all know that there are one set of rules for Socialist Community Organizers and another for folksy, lipstick-besmirched hawkey mawms?
Center for American Progress Action Fund Faiz Shakir 2010
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Oh, yes, doncha all know that there are one set of rules for Socialist Community Organizers and another for folksy, lipstick-besmirched hawkey mawms?
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Comment posted by bcuster on November 13, 2008 at 1: 29 am (#893489) the gliding irish showed hawkey east a thing or three last weekend …
Mets Geek 2008
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Scoring whitely their tracery of intricate lines, the groups go by in whorls, in angles, in sweeping circles, and the ice shrinks beneath them; here a fairy couple slide along, waving and bowing and swinging together; far away some recluse in his pleasure sports alone with folded arms, careening in the outward roll like the mast of a phantom-craft; everywhere inshore clusters of ruddy-cheeked boys race headlong with their hawkey-sticks, and with their wild cries, making benders where the ice surges in a long swell: and constantly in
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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