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Soccer Football Association Opposed Rugby Er University Slang

正面 3376.soccer
英 ['sɒkə]美 ['sɑkɚ]

背面
释义:
n. 英式足球,足球
例句:
1. Soccer in the States has never taken off in a big way.足球在美国从来就没获得过大发展。

1. 音译“酷”----酷哦。2. 同源词:cold => cool.
soccer 足球soc-,缩写自 association,缩写自 Football Association,足球协会,足球联赛,-er,名词后缀。
soccersoccer: [19] Soccer was coined from Association football, a term introduced around 1870 for football played according to the rules of the Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football). The suffix -er was commonly used as a more-or-less meaningless addition to nouns in British public-school and university slang of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (footer ‘football’ was formed in the same way). Originally, in the 1890s, socker vied with soccer as the word’s spelling.soccer (n.)1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc."

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