See kayfabed on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "kayfabe",
"3": "ed"
},
"expansion": "kayfabe + -ed",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From kayfabe + -ed.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "kayfabed (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"kay‧fabed"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Professional wrestling",
"orig": "en:Professional wrestling",
"parents": [
"Entertainment",
"Sports",
"Culture",
"Human activity",
"Society",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "85 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "68 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ed",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "82 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "87 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006, Scott M. Beekman, Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America, Westport, Conn., London: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 97:",
"text": "While some respectable sporting journals, most significantly Ring Magazine, continued to offer balanced (but kayfabed) coverage of wrestling, the ballyhoo-filled wrestling magazines came to be the main source of printed information for devotees.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Scott Keith, “Conclusion”, in Dungeon of Death: Chris Benoit and the Hart Family Curse, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press Books, Kensington Publishing, →ISBN, page 193:",
"text": "He also lived in the bizarre, hazy world of half-truth, half-kayfabed fiction that wrestling in 2007 had become. Lest we forget just how far the line between reality and storyline was blurred, WWE refused to acknowledge the death of Sherri Martel because it would undermine the Vince is dead angle.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis, Andrew William Wright, “Destroy Everything that Moves”, in The Road Warriors: Danger, Death, and the Rush of Wrestling, [St. Charles, Ill.]: Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 82:",
"text": "[King Kong] Bundy and I stood our ground and yelled shit at each other, acting like we were about to go to blows. Then I scuffed my feet, rubbed my hands together, and went for the slam. I picked him up about halfway before I felt him deadweight me, and I had to let go of him. I grabbed my back in kayfabed pain.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of events within the industry: portrayed as real, and not scripted or staged."
],
"id": "en-kayfabed-en-adj-Ih2bWo9p",
"links": [
[
"professional wrestling",
"professional wrestling"
],
[
"portray",
"portray"
],
[
"scripted",
"script#Verb"
],
[
"staged",
"stage#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(professional wrestling) Of events within the industry: portrayed as real, and not scripted or staged."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"martial-arts",
"military",
"politics",
"professional-wrestling",
"sports",
"war",
"wrestling"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkeɪfeɪbd/"
}
],
"word": "kayfabed"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "kayfabe",
"3": "ed"
},
"expansion": "kayfabe + -ed",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From kayfabe + -ed.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "kayfabed",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"kay‧fabed"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "kayfabe"
}
],
"glosses": [
"simple past and past participle of kayfabe."
],
"id": "en-kayfabed-en-verb-6CONLG-A",
"links": [
[
"kayfabe",
"kayfabe#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkeɪfeɪbd/"
}
],
"word": "kayfabed"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English terms suffixed with -ed",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "kayfabe",
"3": "ed"
},
"expansion": "kayfabe + -ed",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From kayfabe + -ed.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "kayfabed (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"kay‧fabed"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Professional wrestling"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006, Scott M. Beekman, Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America, Westport, Conn., London: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 97:",
"text": "While some respectable sporting journals, most significantly Ring Magazine, continued to offer balanced (but kayfabed) coverage of wrestling, the ballyhoo-filled wrestling magazines came to be the main source of printed information for devotees.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Scott Keith, “Conclusion”, in Dungeon of Death: Chris Benoit and the Hart Family Curse, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press Books, Kensington Publishing, →ISBN, page 193:",
"text": "He also lived in the bizarre, hazy world of half-truth, half-kayfabed fiction that wrestling in 2007 had become. Lest we forget just how far the line between reality and storyline was blurred, WWE refused to acknowledge the death of Sherri Martel because it would undermine the Vince is dead angle.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis, Andrew William Wright, “Destroy Everything that Moves”, in The Road Warriors: Danger, Death, and the Rush of Wrestling, [St. Charles, Ill.]: Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 82:",
"text": "[King Kong] Bundy and I stood our ground and yelled shit at each other, acting like we were about to go to blows. Then I scuffed my feet, rubbed my hands together, and went for the slam. I picked him up about halfway before I felt him deadweight me, and I had to let go of him. I grabbed my back in kayfabed pain.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of events within the industry: portrayed as real, and not scripted or staged."
],
"links": [
[
"professional wrestling",
"professional wrestling"
],
[
"portray",
"portray"
],
[
"scripted",
"script#Verb"
],
[
"staged",
"stage#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(professional wrestling) Of events within the industry: portrayed as real, and not scripted or staged."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"martial-arts",
"military",
"politics",
"professional-wrestling",
"sports",
"war",
"wrestling"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkeɪfeɪbd/"
}
],
"word": "kayfabed"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English terms suffixed with -ed",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "kayfabe",
"3": "ed"
},
"expansion": "kayfabe + -ed",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From kayfabe + -ed.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "kayfabed",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"kay‧fabed"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "kayfabe"
}
],
"glosses": [
"simple past and past participle of kayfabe."
],
"links": [
[
"kayfabe",
"kayfabe#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkeɪfeɪbd/"
}
],
"word": "kayfabed"
}
Download raw JSONL data for kayfabed meaning in All languages combined (3.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (bcd5c38 and 9dbd323). 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.