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hawkey

hawkey is the alternative form of hawkie.

hawkey is the obsolete form of hockey.

Meaning of hawkie

Noun

hawkie (plural hawkies)

  1. (Geordie) A cow with a white face and darker body.

Meaning of hockey

Noun (1)

hockey (uncountable)

  1. Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
  2. (Commonwealth) Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
    • He helped his team beat the opponent at hockey 11-9 in a high-scoring match.
  3. (Canada, US) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
    • US stadiums are packed in the winter to see ice hockey.

Noun (2)

hockey (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) Feces, excrement.
    • “I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.”1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug

See all 5 meanings of hockey

Noun

hawkey (plural hawkeys)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A harvest supper.

Proper noun capitalized: Hawkey

Hawkey (plural Hawkeys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of hawkey

Noun
pluralhawkeys
alternative formhockey
alternative formhorkey
Proper noun
pluralHawkeys

Questions about hawkey

What does hawkey mean?
Hawkey means a harvest supper.
What is hawkey the alternative form of?
Hawkey is the alternative form of hawkie.
What part of speech is hawkey?
Hawkey can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of hawkey?
The plural of hawkey is hawkeys.

Words near hawkey in the dictionary

  1. Hawkesdale
  2. Hawkesian
  3. Hawkespeak
  4. Hawkesworth
  5. hawketh
  6. hawkey
  7. hawkeye
  8. Hawkeye State
  9. hawkeyed
  10. hawkeyes
  11. hawkeys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hawkey (page history and authors); Hawkey (page history and authors); hawkie (page history and authors); hockey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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