hockeyist

English

Etymology

From hockey +‎ -ist.

Noun

hockeyist (plural hockeyists)

1. (sports) A hockey player.
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Someone interested in hockey.

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “hockeyist”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• “hockeyist”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.