"bolshi" meaning in All languages combined

See bolshi on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more bolshi [comparative], most bolshi [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} bolshi (comparative more bolshi, superlative most bolshi)
  1. Alternative form of bolshie Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: bolshie
    Sense id: en-bolshi-en-adj-~qqgSE4C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50

Noun [English]

Forms: bolshis [plural], bolshies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|s|bolshies}} bolshi (plural bolshis or bolshies)
  1. Alternative form of bolshie Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: bolshie
    Sense id: en-bolshi-en-noun-~qqgSE4C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bolshi meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bolshis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bolshies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "bolshies"
      },
      "expansion": "bolshi (plural bolshis or bolshies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bolshie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Annual - Volume 17, page 321",
          "text": "In his conversation with Ribentrop that took place at the beginning of April, 1943 in Hitler's headquarters, the King said from the Bulgarian Jews \"he wanted deported only an in significant number who were communists and bolshis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Anne Collett, Lars Jensen, Anna Rutherford, Teaching Post-colonialism and Post-colonial Literatures, page 23",
          "text": "We were unaware at the time that the rest of Australia regarded it as a dirty, ugly industrial city inhabited by a lot of 'bolshis' who'd go on strike at the drop of a hat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, page 614",
          "text": "Old drunk Yeltsin and all the 'apparatus' behind him are still the old 'bolshis,' only now masquerading to be something else.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bolshie"
      ],
      "id": "en-bolshi-en-noun-~qqgSE4C",
      "links": [
        [
          "bolshie",
          "bolshie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bolshi"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more bolshi",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bolshi",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bolshi (comparative more bolshi, superlative most bolshi)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bolshie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Pat Kirkham, David Thoms, War Culture",
          "text": "For some a 'bolshi' attitude towards authority was extended to a generalised 'they', usually meaning their bosses but also official bodies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Katie Fforde, Thyme Out, page 1",
          "text": "So you've got bolshi in your old age, have you? You always were difficult.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Jim Connibeer, And Dog Created Basingstoke",
          "text": "Olga was getting rather bolshi herself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bolshie"
      ],
      "id": "en-bolshi-en-adj-~qqgSE4C",
      "links": [
        [
          "bolshie",
          "bolshie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bolshi"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bolshis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bolshies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "bolshies"
      },
      "expansion": "bolshi (plural bolshis or bolshies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bolshie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Annual - Volume 17, page 321",
          "text": "In his conversation with Ribentrop that took place at the beginning of April, 1943 in Hitler's headquarters, the King said from the Bulgarian Jews \"he wanted deported only an in significant number who were communists and bolshis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Anne Collett, Lars Jensen, Anna Rutherford, Teaching Post-colonialism and Post-colonial Literatures, page 23",
          "text": "We were unaware at the time that the rest of Australia regarded it as a dirty, ugly industrial city inhabited by a lot of 'bolshis' who'd go on strike at the drop of a hat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, page 614",
          "text": "Old drunk Yeltsin and all the 'apparatus' behind him are still the old 'bolshis,' only now masquerading to be something else.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bolshie"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bolshie",
          "bolshie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bolshi"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more bolshi",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bolshi",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bolshi (comparative more bolshi, superlative most bolshi)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bolshie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Pat Kirkham, David Thoms, War Culture",
          "text": "For some a 'bolshi' attitude towards authority was extended to a generalised 'they', usually meaning their bosses but also official bodies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Katie Fforde, Thyme Out, page 1",
          "text": "So you've got bolshi in your old age, have you? You always were difficult.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Jim Connibeer, And Dog Created Basingstoke",
          "text": "Olga was getting rather bolshi herself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bolshie"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bolshie",
          "bolshie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bolshi"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). 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.