See shanks' nag on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Traced back to shanks-nag, 1758; The expression -- believed to be Scottish in origin (i.e. shanks-naig 1774), refers to the use of shank to refer to the part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shanks' nags",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "shanks' nag"
},
"expansion": "shanks' nag (plural shanks' nags)",
"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": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scottish English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "shanks' mare"
},
{
"tags": [
"Australia",
"UK"
],
"word": "shanks' pony"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1774, Robert Fergusson, Poems on Various Subjects:",
"text": "He took shanks-naig, but fient may care.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Transportation by foot. To \"take a shanks' nag\" means using one's own legs to walk."
],
"id": "en-shanks'_nag-en-noun-3pkq9bL3",
"links": [
[
"Transportation",
"transportation"
],
[
"foot",
"foot"
],
[
"legs",
"legs"
],
[
"walk",
"walk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, Scotland, archaic) Transportation by foot. To \"take a shanks' nag\" means using one's own legs to walk."
],
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"verb"
],
"word": "shank-nag"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shank's nag"
},
{
"word": "shanks-naig"
},
{
"word": "shanks-nag"
}
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"archaic",
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "walking",
"word": "十一路"
},
{
"code": "is",
"english": "to take shanks' nag",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "walking",
"word": "fara á tveimur jafnfljótum"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "walking",
"word": "ganga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "walking",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "apostlahästar"
}
]
}
],
"word": "shanks' nag"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "shanks' mare"
},
{
"tags": [
"Australia",
"UK"
],
"word": "shanks' pony"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Traced back to shanks-nag, 1758; The expression -- believed to be Scottish in origin (i.e. shanks-naig 1774), refers to the use of shank to refer to the part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shanks' nags",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "shanks' nag"
},
"expansion": "shanks' nag (plural shanks' nags)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"verb"
],
"word": "shank-nag"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Scottish English",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1774, Robert Fergusson, Poems on Various Subjects:",
"text": "He took shanks-naig, but fient may care.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Transportation by foot. To \"take a shanks' nag\" means using one's own legs to walk."
],
"links": [
[
"Transportation",
"transportation"
],
[
"foot",
"foot"
],
[
"legs",
"legs"
],
[
"walk",
"walk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, Scotland, archaic) Transportation by foot. To \"take a shanks' nag\" means using one's own legs to walk."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"archaic",
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shank's nag"
},
{
"word": "shanks-naig"
},
{
"word": "shanks-nag"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "walking",
"word": "十一路"
},
{
"code": "is",
"english": "to take shanks' nag",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "walking",
"word": "fara á tveimur jafnfljótum"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "walking",
"word": "ganga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "walking",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "apostlahästar"
}
],
"word": "shanks' nag"
}
Download raw JSONL data for shanks' nag meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). 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.