"Barkis is willin'" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, in which the phrase is used by Mr Barkis to hint that he wishes to marry Clara Peggotty.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "Barkis is willin'"
      },
      "expansion": "Barkis is willin'",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Anthony Trollope, The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson",
          "text": "If Barkis is willing, then a certain gentleman as we know in the meat trade may suit himself elsewhere. Come; answer that. Is Barkis willing?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Somebody has a sweetheart they wish to marry."
      ],
      "id": "en-Barkis_is_willin'-en-phrase-ZCQZD6qZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "sweetheart",
          "sweetheart"
        ],
        [
          "marry",
          "marry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "humorous"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "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+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1923 November 23, The Pressman, “Should Parliament be Broadcast?”, in Radio Times",
          "text": "So far as the B.B.C. is concerned it may be stated at once that the matter has not at the moment of writing even been discussed by the directors, so that it is impossible to state what is the policy of the company on the subject. But one would not be far out by saying \"Barkis is willin',\" if there is a widespread demand for it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone is amenable to a suggestion."
      ],
      "id": "en-Barkis_is_willin'-en-phrase-IaZRplhO",
      "links": [
        [
          "amenable",
          "amenable"
        ],
        [
          "suggestion",
          "suggestion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Someone is amenable to a suggestion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Barkis is willing"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Bernhard Gillam"
  ],
  "word": "Barkis is willin'"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English colloquialisms",
    "English dated terms",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English eponyms",
    "English humorous terms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrases",
    "English terms derived from Dickensian works",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A reference to Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, in which the phrase is used by Mr Barkis to hint that he wishes to marry Clara Peggotty.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "Barkis is willin'"
      },
      "expansion": "Barkis is willin'",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Anthony Trollope, The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson",
          "text": "If Barkis is willing, then a certain gentleman as we know in the meat trade may suit himself elsewhere. Come; answer that. Is Barkis willing?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Somebody has a sweetheart they wish to marry."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sweetheart",
          "sweetheart"
        ],
        [
          "marry",
          "marry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "humorous"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1923 November 23, The Pressman, “Should Parliament be Broadcast?”, in Radio Times",
          "text": "So far as the B.B.C. is concerned it may be stated at once that the matter has not at the moment of writing even been discussed by the directors, so that it is impossible to state what is the policy of the company on the subject. But one would not be far out by saying \"Barkis is willin',\" if there is a widespread demand for it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone is amenable to a suggestion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "amenable",
          "amenable"
        ],
        [
          "suggestion",
          "suggestion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Someone is amenable to a suggestion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Barkis is willing"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Bernhard Gillam"
  ],
  "word": "Barkis is willin'"
}