See WIMRE on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "wenn ich mich recht entsinne"
},
"expansion": "Initialism of wenn ich mich recht entsinne",
"name": "initialism"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Initialism of wenn ich mich recht entsinne (or erinnere), possibly formed under the influence of the English equivalent IIRC. Attested by 1993, at first separated by periods.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wimre",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "w.i.m.r.e.",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "phrase"
},
"expansion": "WIMRE",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "de",
"name": "Internet",
"orig": "de:Internet",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
80,
89
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
66,
70
]
],
"english": "|[it's from some movie, forgot which one though.]\nThe Terminator, iirc....",
"ref": "1993 February 22, Wolfram Roesler, “Telefonbeantworter”, in de.talk.jokes (Usenet):",
"text": "|[Is' aus irgendeinem Film, weiss aber nicht mehr aus welchem.]\nDer Terminator, w.i.m.r.e....",
"translation": "|[it's from some movie, forgot which one though.]\nThe Terminator, iirc....",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
74,
79
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
55,
59
]
],
"english": "This topic came up before, I think it was last spring. IIRC there is no single rule for when an article is used for a country, […]",
"ref": "2000 February 24, Joerg Digmayer, “die Schweiz”, in de.etc.sprache.deutsch (Usenet):",
"text": "Wir hatten dieses Thema schon mal, ich glaub, es war im letzten Frühjahr. WIMRE gibt es keine einheitliche Regel, wann Länder mit einem Artikel versehen werden, […]",
"translation": "This topic came up before, I think it was last spring. IIRC there is no single rule for when an article is used for a country, […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
4
]
],
"english": "IIRC the main reason is that the last cylinder doesn't get any of the airstream, so it gets hotter than the others and there is more wear.",
"ref": "2003 March 6, JIG, “RE: Kompression”, in mx-5.de (forum post), archived from the original on 16 Apr 2026:",
"text": "WIMRE ist der Hauptgrund, dass der letzte zylinder kein fahrtwind abbekommt, deshalb heisser wird als die anderen und deshalb der verschleiss höher ist.",
"translation": "IIRC the main reason is that the last cylinder doesn't get any of the airstream, so it gets hotter than the others and there is more wear.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
33,
38
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
27,
31
]
],
"english": "Dell did that once, though IIRC Ubuntu didn't run on those computers all that well.",
"ref": "2009 November 7, Martin Bieder, “Geile Kisten !”, in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc (Usenet):",
"text": "Dell hat das mal gemacht, obwohl WIMRE Ubuntu auf diesen Rechnern nicht so sehr gut lief.",
"translation": "Dell did that once, though IIRC Ubuntu didn't run on those computers all that well.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"IIRC"
],
"id": "en-WIMRE-de-phrase-CxrB~pk7",
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"IIRC",
"IIRC"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang) IIRC"
],
"tags": [
"Internet"
]
}
],
"word": "WIMRE"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "wenn ich mich recht entsinne"
},
"expansion": "Initialism of wenn ich mich recht entsinne",
"name": "initialism"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Initialism of wenn ich mich recht entsinne (or erinnere), possibly formed under the influence of the English equivalent IIRC. Attested by 1993, at first separated by periods.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wimre",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "w.i.m.r.e.",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "phrase"
},
"expansion": "WIMRE",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German initialisms",
"German lemmas",
"German phrases",
"German slang",
"German terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"de:Internet"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
80,
89
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
66,
70
]
],
"english": "|[it's from some movie, forgot which one though.]\nThe Terminator, iirc....",
"ref": "1993 February 22, Wolfram Roesler, “Telefonbeantworter”, in de.talk.jokes (Usenet):",
"text": "|[Is' aus irgendeinem Film, weiss aber nicht mehr aus welchem.]\nDer Terminator, w.i.m.r.e....",
"translation": "|[it's from some movie, forgot which one though.]\nThe Terminator, iirc....",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
74,
79
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
55,
59
]
],
"english": "This topic came up before, I think it was last spring. IIRC there is no single rule for when an article is used for a country, […]",
"ref": "2000 February 24, Joerg Digmayer, “die Schweiz”, in de.etc.sprache.deutsch (Usenet):",
"text": "Wir hatten dieses Thema schon mal, ich glaub, es war im letzten Frühjahr. WIMRE gibt es keine einheitliche Regel, wann Länder mit einem Artikel versehen werden, […]",
"translation": "This topic came up before, I think it was last spring. IIRC there is no single rule for when an article is used for a country, […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
4
]
],
"english": "IIRC the main reason is that the last cylinder doesn't get any of the airstream, so it gets hotter than the others and there is more wear.",
"ref": "2003 March 6, JIG, “RE: Kompression”, in mx-5.de (forum post), archived from the original on 16 Apr 2026:",
"text": "WIMRE ist der Hauptgrund, dass der letzte zylinder kein fahrtwind abbekommt, deshalb heisser wird als die anderen und deshalb der verschleiss höher ist.",
"translation": "IIRC the main reason is that the last cylinder doesn't get any of the airstream, so it gets hotter than the others and there is more wear.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
33,
38
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
27,
31
]
],
"english": "Dell did that once, though IIRC Ubuntu didn't run on those computers all that well.",
"ref": "2009 November 7, Martin Bieder, “Geile Kisten !”, in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc (Usenet):",
"text": "Dell hat das mal gemacht, obwohl WIMRE Ubuntu auf diesen Rechnern nicht so sehr gut lief.",
"translation": "Dell did that once, though IIRC Ubuntu didn't run on those computers all that well.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"IIRC"
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"IIRC",
"IIRC"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang) IIRC"
],
"tags": [
"Internet"
]
}
],
"word": "WIMRE"
}
Download raw JSONL data for WIMRE meaning in All languages combined (3.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-06-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-06-01 using wiktextract (03da280 and 7f4db16). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.