See morphineuse on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "morphineuse"
},
"expansion": "French morphineuse",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French morphineuse.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "morphineuses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "morphineuse (plural morphineuses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English 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"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
15
]
],
"ref": "1902, Robert Hichens, Felix, page 291:",
"text": "The morphineuse is an old woman who makes a profession of injecting morphia into the smart women and the demi-mondaines who frequent her house.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
53
]
],
"ref": "1917, Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Weiser, published 2010, page 252:",
"text": "[H]ers was the restless wretchedness of a morphineuse deprived of the drug.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
34,
45
]
],
"ref": "2001, David Trotter, Paranoid Modernism, page 275:",
"text": "The pitted breast and arms of the morphineuse became a key element in the iconography of needle-dancing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A woman who habitually takes morphine, a female morphine addict; also, a woman who supplies morphine to users."
],
"id": "en-morphineuse-en-noun-8xRwjr1N",
"links": [
[
"morphine",
"morphine"
],
[
"addict",
"addict"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now chiefly historical) A woman who habitually takes morphine, a female morphine addict; also, a woman who supplies morphine to users."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
]
}
],
"word": "morphineuse"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "morphineuse"
},
"expansion": "French morphineuse",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French morphineuse.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "morphineuses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "morphineuse (plural morphineuses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
15
]
],
"ref": "1902, Robert Hichens, Felix, page 291:",
"text": "The morphineuse is an old woman who makes a profession of injecting morphia into the smart women and the demi-mondaines who frequent her house.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
53
]
],
"ref": "1917, Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Weiser, published 2010, page 252:",
"text": "[H]ers was the restless wretchedness of a morphineuse deprived of the drug.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
34,
45
]
],
"ref": "2001, David Trotter, Paranoid Modernism, page 275:",
"text": "The pitted breast and arms of the morphineuse became a key element in the iconography of needle-dancing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A woman who habitually takes morphine, a female morphine addict; also, a woman who supplies morphine to users."
],
"links": [
[
"morphine",
"morphine"
],
[
"addict",
"addict"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now chiefly historical) A woman who habitually takes morphine, a female morphine addict; also, a woman who supplies morphine to users."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
]
}
],
"word": "morphineuse"
}
Download raw JSONL data for morphineuse meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). 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.