golf

Use this forum to suggest Good Words for Professor Beard.
Eileen Opiolka
Lexiterian
Posts: 103
Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:50 am

golf

Postby Eileen Opiolka » Sun Mar 09, 2014 2:30 pm

A simple word. I wonder if it has any links to the Dutch golf meaning a wave?

User avatar
Slava
Great Grand Panjandrum
Posts: 8040
Joined: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:31 am
Location: Finger Lakes, NY

Re: golf

Postby Slava » Sun Mar 09, 2014 3:13 pm

A simple word. I wonder if it has any links to the Dutch golf meaning a wave?
Not according to etymonline.com:

mid-15c., Scottish gouf, usually taken as an alteration of Middle Dutch colf, colve "stick, club, bat," from Proto-Germanic *kulth- (cf. Old Norse kolfr "clapper of a bell," German Kolben "mace, club"). The game is from 14c., the word is first mentioned (along with fut-bol) in a 1457 Scottish statute on forbidden games. Golf ball attested from 1540s.

Interesting to learn that footie used to be a forbidden game.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.

Eileen Opiolka
Lexiterian
Posts: 103
Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:50 am

Re: golf

Postby Eileen Opiolka » Sun Mar 09, 2014 3:30 pm

Many thanks, Slava.
Eileen

Perry Lassiter
Great Grand Panjandrum
Posts: 3333
Joined: Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:41 pm
Location: RUSTON, LA
Contact:

Re: golf

Postby Perry Lassiter » Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:14 pm

Footie? Blasphemy!
pl

User avatar
Slava
Great Grand Panjandrum
Posts: 8040
Joined: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:31 am
Location: Finger Lakes, NY

Re: golf

Postby Slava » Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:21 pm

Footie? Blasphemy!
I beg forgiveness. I used that one because I didn't want to use either football or soccer, which could lead to confustication. :)

Why is footie blasphemy, by the way? I thought it was a commonly used term. At least I didn't write footsie, as that's something completely different. Different game altogether.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.

Philip Hudson
Great Grand Panjandrum
Posts: 2784
Joined: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:41 am
Location: Texas

Re: golf

Postby Philip Hudson » Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:11 am

Footsie I know. Footie I don't. Footsie is a delightful game I recommend for the young and unattached. At a crowded table, one should make sure just who one's footsie partner is.
It is dark at night, but the Sun will come up and then we can see.

User avatar
call_copse
Senior Lexiterian
Posts: 668
Joined: Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:42 am
Location: Southampton

Re: golf

Postby call_copse » Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:59 am

Footie (or footy) is a commonly used term meaning football (or soccer); a sport almost universally popular in other parts of the world than the US. As Albert Camus said “Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football.” He may be slightly misquoted but his meaning is generally clear for a philosopher - it may be better to look to simple pursuits for moral guidance than 'overblown, high falutin' claptrap'.

Some may find that concept blasphemous :D That would be their lookout.
Iain


Return to “Good Word Suggestions”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Semrush [Bot] and 36 guests