See Farbror Blå on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Literally ’Uncle Blue’, referring to the blue uniforms worn by the Swedish police. Likely named after the character with the same name in the book Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender (1918) and its sequels by Elsa Beskow (1874–1953).", "forms": [ { "form": "Farbror Blås", "tags": [ "genitive" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sv", "2": "proper noun", "3": "genitive", "4": "Farbror Blås", "g": "c", "head": "Farbror Blå" }, "expansion": "Farbror Blå c (genitive Farbror Blås)", "name": "head" }, { "args": { "1": "c", "head": "Farbror Blå" }, "expansion": "Farbror Blå c (genitive Farbror Blås)", "name": "sv-proper noun" } ], "lang": "Swedish", "lang_code": "sv", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "english": "Uncle Blue is on the lookout, but can't find their way around the maze", "ref": "2000, The Latin Kings (lyrics and music), “De e knas [There's trouble]”, in Mitt kvarter [My neighborhood]:", "text": "Farbror Blå spanar, men hittar inte i labyrinten", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "the police" ], "id": "en-Farbror_Blå-sv-name-4W7oPfaz", "links": [ [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "police", "police" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(slang, humorous) the police" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "aina" }, { "word": "bängen" }, { "word": "snuten" }, { "word": "grisen" }, { "word": "bylingen" }, { "word": "farbror blå" } ], "tags": [ "common-gender", "humorous", "slang" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/farbrʊr ˈbloː/" }, { "rhymes": "-oː" } ], "word": "Farbror Blå" }
{ "etymology_text": "Literally ’Uncle Blue’, referring to the blue uniforms worn by the Swedish police. Likely named after the character with the same name in the book Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender (1918) and its sequels by Elsa Beskow (1874–1953).", "forms": [ { "form": "Farbror Blås", "tags": [ "genitive" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sv", "2": "proper noun", "3": "genitive", "4": "Farbror Blås", "g": "c", "head": "Farbror Blå" }, "expansion": "Farbror Blå c (genitive Farbror Blås)", "name": "head" }, { "args": { "1": "c", "head": "Farbror Blå" }, "expansion": "Farbror Blå c (genitive Farbror Blås)", "name": "sv-proper noun" } ], "lang": "Swedish", "lang_code": "sv", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:Swedish/oː", "Rhymes:Swedish/oː/3 syllables", "Swedish common-gender nouns", "Swedish entries with incorrect language header", "Swedish humorous terms", "Swedish lemmas", "Swedish multiword terms", "Swedish proper nouns", "Swedish slang", "Swedish terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "english": "Uncle Blue is on the lookout, but can't find their way around the maze", "ref": "2000, The Latin Kings (lyrics and music), “De e knas [There's trouble]”, in Mitt kvarter [My neighborhood]:", "text": "Farbror Blå spanar, men hittar inte i labyrinten", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "the police" ], "links": [ [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "police", "police" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(slang, humorous) the police" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "aina" }, { "word": "bängen" }, { "word": "snuten" }, { "word": "grisen" }, { "word": "bylingen" } ], "tags": [ "common-gender", "humorous", "slang" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/farbrʊr ˈbloː/" }, { "rhymes": "-oː" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "farbror blå" } ], "word": "Farbror Blå" }
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