handegg
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handegg
- /ˈhændɛɡ/
Rhymes with -ɛɡ
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Compound of 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 case for association football (also known as soccer, or “football proper” in this context), as opposed to using the hand to propel a spheroid (egg-shaped) object.
noun handeggs · hand-egg
- Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; namely, American football and (less often) Canadian, Australian, and rugby football (including league and union varieties). 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”.
- The ball used to play such a game.
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title = {handegg},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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