What is the derivation of bull hockey?
Hockey is a euphemism for excrement according to the Wordsworth Book of Euphemism and dates back to the 1960s when speakers steered away from the more offensive bulls**t.Hockey is indeed a euphemisn for excrement, but it's much older than the 1960s. Vance Randolph collected bawdy stories in the Ozarks (His book is called "Pissing in the Snow.") It records the use of the words going back at least to the 1930s, if not earlier. The origin of thisuse is obscure.