"deely bobber" meaning in All languages combined

See deely bobber on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: deely bobbers [plural]
Etymology: Originally a trademark, suggested by the wife of product marketer John Minkove; it had been her schoolfriend's placeholder name for an unspecified object (thus perhaps from dealie). Head templates: {{en-noun|nolinkhead=1}} deely bobber (plural deely bobbers)
  1. A novelty headband, popular in the 1980s, with two springy antenna-like protrusions topped with small pompoms or other ornaments. Categories (topical): Headwear

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for deely bobber meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a trademark, suggested by the wife of product marketer John Minkove; it had been her schoolfriend's placeholder name for an unspecified object (thus perhaps from dealie).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deely bobbers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "deely bobber (plural deely bobbers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English genericized trademarks",
          "parents": [
            "Genericized trademarks",
            "Terms by etymology",
            "Trademarks",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Headwear",
          "orig": "en:Headwear",
          "parents": [
            "Clothing",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A novelty headband, popular in the 1980s, with two springy antenna-like protrusions topped with small pompoms or other ornaments."
      ],
      "id": "en-deely_bobber-en-noun-L1IBv3cZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "novelty",
          "novelty"
        ],
        [
          "headband",
          "headband"
        ],
        [
          "springy",
          "springy"
        ],
        [
          "antenna",
          "antenna"
        ],
        [
          "protrusion",
          "protrusion"
        ],
        [
          "pompom",
          "pompom"
        ],
        [
          "ornament",
          "ornament"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deely bobber"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a trademark, suggested by the wife of product marketer John Minkove; it had been her schoolfriend's placeholder name for an unspecified object (thus perhaps from dealie).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deely bobbers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "deely bobber (plural deely bobbers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English genericized trademarks",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Headwear"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A novelty headband, popular in the 1980s, with two springy antenna-like protrusions topped with small pompoms or other ornaments."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "novelty",
          "novelty"
        ],
        [
          "headband",
          "headband"
        ],
        [
          "springy",
          "springy"
        ],
        [
          "antenna",
          "antenna"
        ],
        [
          "protrusion",
          "protrusion"
        ],
        [
          "pompom",
          "pompom"
        ],
        [
          "ornament",
          "ornament"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deely bobber"
}

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.