softball

softball
softball baseball of larger than usual size, used in a scaled-down version of the game, 1914, from SOFT (Cf. soft) + BALL (Cf. ball). The game itself so called from 1926, earlier known as playground baseball. The word earlier was a term in sugar candy making (1894). Softball question, one that is easy to answer, is attested from 1976.

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