handegg

发音

AU /ˈhændɛɡ/

词形变化

handeggs 复数 handeggs

别名

hand-egg

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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).

    幽默 俚语 不可数 可数

    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”.

    When I get there he was watching handegg. I’m not into that hand egg shit so we got into a heated argument on which was better.

    You're wrong, kids all around the world play football, it just takes a ball and a pair of sneakers, whereas handegg requires a full body armour.

  2. 2.

    The ball used to play such a game.

    可数 幽默 俚语 不可数

相关短语

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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