rugbies
- 1Plural of rugby.
Fans in the north of England grew up arguing over which of the two rugbies was the real game.
She packed three striped rugbies for the fall semester.
Note
The game itself rarely takes a plural, so rugbies does two narrower jobs. It counts forms of the sport, as in "the two rugbies" of Karl Spracklen's Exploring Sports and Society (2014), and it counts garments, because a rugby is also short for a rugby shirt, the stiff-collared, buttoned-neck shirt players wear. Context tells them apart: a debate about rugbies is about the game, a pile of them is laundry.
rugbies is a form of rugby
rugby, noun: A form of football with an oval ball carried or kicked but never handled forward; points come from grounding it past the opponents' goal line or kicking it over the crossbar between the posts. Full entry
- Forms
- rugbyrugbies pluralrugbys plural
- Spelling
- rugby → rugbies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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