camogie

English

Game of camogie.

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish camógaíocht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmoʊɡi/

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Noun

camogie (uncountable)

1. A women's stick-and-ball sport from Ireland, almost identical to hurling.
   • 2003, Robert Crego, Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 91:

     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.

Derived terms

• camogie stick

Related terms

• caman

Translations

stick-and-ball sport from Ireland

• Irish: camógaíocht

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