"Pippi Longstocking" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Pippi Longstockings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ Etymology: Named after the character created by Astrid Lindgren, calque of Swedish Pippi Långstrump. Etymology templates: {{lang|en|the character created by Astrid Lindgren}} the character created by Astrid Lindgren, {{named-after|en|the character created by Astrid Lindgren}} Named after the character created by Astrid Lindgren, {{calque|en|sv|Pippi Långstrump|nocap=1}} calque of Swedish Pippi Långstrump Head templates: {{en-noun|nolinkhead=1}} Pippi Longstocking (plural Pippi Longstockings)
  1. A person, especially a girl or woman, with long or flamboyant red hair, especially in pigtails or parted down the middle, and prominent freckles. Categories (topical): Fictional characters, Personality Translations (a girl with flamboyant red hair in pigtails and freckles): Pipi Ŝtrumpolonga (Esperanto), Pipi Pikksukk (Estonian), Peppi Pitkätossu (Finnish), Fifi Brindacier [feminine] (French), Pippi Langstrumpf [feminine] (German), בילבי גרב-ברך (bilbi gerev berekh) [feminine] (Hebrew), בילבי בת-גרב (bilbi bat gerev) [feminine] (Hebrew), בילבי (bilbi) [feminine] (Hebrew), גילגי (gilgi) [feminine] (Hebrew), Lína Langsokkur (Icelandic), Pippi Calzelunghe [feminine] (Italian), 長くつ下のピッピ (Nagakutsushita no Pippi) (alt: ながくつしたのピッピ) (Japanese), Пипи Долгиот Чорап (Pipi Dolgiot Čorap) [feminine] (Macedonian), Пе́ппи Длинныйчуло́к (Pɛ́ppi Dlinnyjčulók) [feminine] (Russian), Pippi Långstrump (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Pippi_Longstocking-en-noun-0PvTWfU0 Disambiguation of Fictional characters: 48 52 Disambiguation of Personality: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'a girl with flamboyant red hair in pigtails and freckles': 83 17
  2. A person, especially a girl or woman, given to headstrong, wild behaviour, flights of fancy, or irrepressible optimism. Categories (topical): Appearance, Female people, Fictional characters, People, Personality Synonyms: Pollyanna
    Sense id: en-Pippi_Longstocking-en-noun-IKQ0DvYI Disambiguation of Appearance: 32 68 Disambiguation of Female people: 28 72 Disambiguation of Fictional characters: 48 52 Disambiguation of People: 18 82 Disambiguation of Personality: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47

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    "Pippi Longstocking"
  ],
  "word": "Pippi Longstocking"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). 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.