mashie niblick
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈmæʃi ˈnɪblɪk/
- Archaic
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mashie niblick
- Back in the day, players often carried a mashie niblick for tricky approach shots.
Examples
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The old golfer reached for his trusty mashie niblick to loft the ball onto the green.
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He found a vintage mashie niblick at the antique sports shop.
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The golfer used a mashie niblick to approach the green.
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Do you still have your mashie niblick from the 80s?
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He took out his mashie niblick to hit a high shot onto the green during the old-fashioned golf tournament.
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While searching through my grandfather's old golf bag, I found a mashie niblick that he had used in his youth.
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The caddy explained how to use a mashie niblick for approaching the green with a lofted shot, a technique that has fallen out of favor.
Synonyms
2
9.9
A heavy iron golf club used to hit short shots that go high
2
5.9
A golf club with a high loft used to hit short, high approach shots
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4.6
A golf club that makes the ball go high for short shots onto the green
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both parts ('mashie' and 'niblick') are names of golf clubs and their definitions point to types of iron clubs used for particular shots, so a learner who knows those constituents would get the general idea that this is a kind of golf club for short/high approach shots. However, the compound is a specialized, now-obsolete technical term and the exact referent and historical nuance are not fully predictable from the parts alone, making the meaning only partially transparent to a general B1 learner.
Etymology
Mashie niblick joins two old club names, mashie and niblick. The name tells a simple picture: it was a short iron used to lift the ball high onto the green, so today the term refers to an old, now 'obsolete' golf club used for high approach shots.