handegg

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; that is, American football and (less often) Canadian, Australian and rugby football (including league and union varieties). humorous,slang,uncountable
    — Football is certainly a misnomer, for the game is played not with the feet but with the hands, and the ball is not a ball but an egg. I propose that the game be played with the feet and with a ball, or else that it be called “hand-egg”.
  2. The ball used to play such a game. countable,humorous,slang

词形变化

handeggs plural hand-egg alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
American handegg

词源

From hand + egg. The jocular implication is that the name football ought to denote using the foot to propel a ball-shaped [i.e. spherical] object, which is the usual case for soccer, as opposed to using the hand to propel an egg-shaped [i.e. spheroid] object.
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