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It seems to have come from the Scottish word gouf, which apparently is from Middle Dutch colf, colve, meaning "club, stick, bat, " which is assumed to be from kulth in the pre-cursor tongue of all Germanic languages. Compare with German kolben, "club, mace".

The first recorded use of the word (along with fut-bol) was in a 1457 Scottish statute forbidding certain games.

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