croquet

英 ['kr??ke?; -k?] 美[kro'ke]

暢通詞匯

croquet 槌球

詞源同crook, crank, cricket, 因其球桿形如彎棍而得名。

croquet: croquet: [19] Old Norse krókr ‘hook’ (source of English crook) was borrowed into Old French as croc. This formed the basis of a diminutive, crochet, literally ‘little hook’, which has passed into English in various guises over the centuries. First to arrive was crotchet [14], applied to musical notes from their hooked shape. Crocket ‘curling ornamental device’ followed in the 17th century, via the Old Northern French variant croquet. Crochet itself, in the ‘knitting’ sense, arrived in the 19th century.

And in the mid 19th century croquet, apparently a dialectal variant of French crochet, was applied to the lawn game with balls and mallets newly introduced from Ireland to Britain. Old French croc was also the ancestor of encroach.
=> crook, crotchet, encroach, lacrosse
croquet (n.): 1858, from Northern French dialect croquet "hockey stick," from Old North French "shepherd's crook," from Old French croc (12c.), from Old Norse krokr "hook" (see crook). Game originated in Brittany, popularized in Ireland c. 1830, England c. 1850, where it was very popular until 1872.

2. She cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself.: 她跟自己玩槌球的時候欺騙了自己.

3. An excellent time to try out my new croquet set.: 嗯,這是個試驗我最新想出來的槌球游戲的好機會.

5. A sport similar to the handball, called croquet, originally existed in Germany.: 地處中歐的德國原有類似手球的活動, 稱為門球.