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camogie

/kəˈmoʊɡi/

camogie noun: a women's stick-and-ball sport from Ireland, almost identical to hurling.

camogie: a women's stick-and-ball sport from Ireland, almost identical to hurling
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Noun

camogie (uncountable)

  1. A 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 of camogie

Borrowed from Irish camógaíocht.

Words formed from camogie

  • camogie stick

Questions about camogie

What does camogie mean?
Camogie means a women's stick-and-ball sport from Ireland, almost identical to hurling.
What part of speech is camogie?
Camogie is a noun.
How do you pronounce camogie?
Camogie is pronounced /kəˈmoʊɡi/.

Words near camogie in the dictionary

  1. Camoens
  2. Camoes
  3. camoflage
  4. camoflaged
  5. camoflague
  6. camogie
  7. camoing
  8. camoing up
  9. Camolin
  10. camomile
  11. camomile tea

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