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hockie

hockie is the obsolete spelling of hockey.

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

Questions about hockie

What is hockie the obsolete spelling of?
Hockie is the obsolete spelling of hockey.

Words near hockie in the dictionary

  1. hockeyless
  2. hockeylike
  3. hockeys
  4. Hockeytown
  5. Hockham
  6. hockie
  7. hocking
  8. Hocking County
  9. Hockings
  10. hockle
  11. hockled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hockie (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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