camogie

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/kəˈmoʊɡi/

noun

A women's stick-and-ball sport from Ireland, almost identical to hurling.

OriginIrish camógaíocht →
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Meanings

nouncamogie (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA women's stick-and-ball sport from Ireland, almost identical to hurling.

    Camogie resembles hurling, although the field is smaller (110 meters by 68 meters), the stick, or caman, is smaller than a hurley, and the ball is also lighter than the sliothar.

    2003, Robert Crego, Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 91

Origin

  1. Irishcamógaíocht
  2. Englishcamogie

Borrowed from Irish camógaíocht.

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Translations

Irish camógaíocht
  • camógaíochtstick-and-ball sport from Ireland

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Chicago

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