"sleevie" meaning in All languages combined

See sleevie on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: sleevies [plural]
Etymology: From sleeve + -ie. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sleeve|ie<id:diminutive>}} sleeve + -ie Head templates: {{en-noun}} sleevie (plural sleevies)
  1. (colloquial, rare) Diminutive of sleeve. Tags: colloquial, diminutive, form-of, rare Form of: sleeve

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "sleeve",
      "sleeve#English"
    ],
    [
      "-ie",
      "-ie#English:_diminutive"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sleeve",
        "3": "ie<id:diminutive>"
      },
      "expansion": "sleeve + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sleeve + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sleevies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sleevie (plural sleevies)",
      "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": "English terms suffixed with -ie (diminutive)",
          "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": [
            [
              318,
              326
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2003 May 15, David Simpson, “hoodlum mentality”, in alt.music.black-sabbath (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "In 1776 the phrase \"keep and bear arms\" referred to military service. It did not give anyone permission to carry a firearm at any time other than when he was in a \"well regulated militia\". Since that is the way that most court decisions have interpreted the amendment, you are wrong, unless you meant the arms in your sleevies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              176,
              184
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2006 December 17, Huss, “[OT] On the advice of Paul Lutus and others...”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "Your claim that \"People want to avoid personal responsibility\" is without empirical or logical foundation. Unless you have something up your sleeve. Want to shake those little sleevies for us, 'Paul'?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              132,
              140
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2007 January 16, Janette, “PH/txt NOW £5k - loose women”, in uk.rec.competitions (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "> Where's me mittens? Meet you both at the train station.................::\n> ;o)\nguessing on a bit of string threaded through your sleevies?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "sleeve"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Diminutive of sleeve."
      ],
      "id": "en-sleevie-en-noun-hp22I3iZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "sleeve",
          "sleeve#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, rare) Diminutive of sleeve."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "diminutive",
        "form-of",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sleevie"
}
{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "sleeve",
      "sleeve#English"
    ],
    [
      "-ie",
      "-ie#English:_diminutive"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sleeve",
        "3": "ie<id:diminutive>"
      },
      "expansion": "sleeve + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sleeve + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sleevies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sleevie (plural sleevies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English diminutive nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ie (diminutive)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              318,
              326
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2003 May 15, David Simpson, “hoodlum mentality”, in alt.music.black-sabbath (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "In 1776 the phrase \"keep and bear arms\" referred to military service. It did not give anyone permission to carry a firearm at any time other than when he was in a \"well regulated militia\". Since that is the way that most court decisions have interpreted the amendment, you are wrong, unless you meant the arms in your sleevies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              176,
              184
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2006 December 17, Huss, “[OT] On the advice of Paul Lutus and others...”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "Your claim that \"People want to avoid personal responsibility\" is without empirical or logical foundation. Unless you have something up your sleeve. Want to shake those little sleevies for us, 'Paul'?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              132,
              140
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2007 January 16, Janette, “PH/txt NOW £5k - loose women”, in uk.rec.competitions (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "> Where's me mittens? Meet you both at the train station.................::\n> ;o)\nguessing on a bit of string threaded through your sleevies?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "sleeve"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Diminutive of sleeve."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sleeve",
          "sleeve#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, rare) Diminutive of sleeve."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "diminutive",
        "form-of",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sleevie"
}

Download raw JSONL data for sleevie meaning in All languages combined (2.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). 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.