soft tennis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.

Word forms

soft tennis

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from soft + tenis.

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