"Rastus" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Thought to be derived from Erastus. Despite paucity of actual usage, the name became associated with African-American men because of a character in the first Uncle Remus book by Joel Chandler Harris.",
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      "expansion": "Rastus",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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            "Proper nouns",
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        },
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          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English male given names",
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            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A male given name of American usage."
      ],
      "id": "en-Rastus-en-name-F7JO-uaT",
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "American",
          "American"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rastus"
  ],
  "word": "Rastus"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Thought to be derived from Erastus. Despite paucity of actual usage, the name became associated with African-American men because of a character in the first Uncle Remus book by Joel Chandler Harris.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Rastuses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Rastus (plural Rastuses)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
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        },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Eva Lennox Birch, Black American Women's Writings, page 59:",
          "text": "But neither did it turn them into Rastuses and Sambos; nor deprive their behaviour of logical and recognisable roots in the conditions of a regional culture whose impact had been distilled into Negro spirituals or the blues.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Patricia H. Hoffman-Miller, Marlon James, Douglas Hermond, African American Suburbanization and the Consequential Loss of Identity, page 21:",
          "text": "From the end of slavery to the period of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, ads in the U.S. continued to show blacks as Aunt Jemimas, Uncle Bens and Rastuses—individuals subservient to whites.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stereotypical African American man, often a cheerful character in minstrel shows."
      ],
      "id": "en-Rastus-en-noun-HLhJs19L",
      "links": [
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          "African American",
          "African American"
        ],
        [
          "minstrel show",
          "minstrel show"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, now offensive) A stereotypical African American man, often a cheerful character in minstrel shows."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "offensive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rastus"
  ],
  "word": "Rastus"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English male given names from Ancient Greek",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Thought to be derived from Erastus. Despite paucity of actual usage, the name became associated with African-American men because of a character in the first Uncle Remus book by Joel Chandler Harris.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English given names",
        "English male given names"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A male given name of American usage."
      ],
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        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "American",
          "American"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rastus"
  ],
  "word": "Rastus"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English male given names from Ancient Greek",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Thought to be derived from Erastus. Despite paucity of actual usage, the name became associated with African-American men because of a character in the first Uncle Remus book by Joel Chandler Harris.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Rastuses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Rastus (plural Rastuses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English offensive terms",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Eva Lennox Birch, Black American Women's Writings, page 59:",
          "text": "But neither did it turn them into Rastuses and Sambos; nor deprive their behaviour of logical and recognisable roots in the conditions of a regional culture whose impact had been distilled into Negro spirituals or the blues.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Patricia H. Hoffman-Miller, Marlon James, Douglas Hermond, African American Suburbanization and the Consequential Loss of Identity, page 21:",
          "text": "From the end of slavery to the period of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, ads in the U.S. continued to show blacks as Aunt Jemimas, Uncle Bens and Rastuses—individuals subservient to whites.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stereotypical African American man, often a cheerful character in minstrel shows."
      ],
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        [
          "African American",
          "African American"
        ],
        [
          "minstrel show",
          "minstrel show"
        ]
      ],
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        "(historical, now offensive) A stereotypical African American man, often a cheerful character in minstrel shows."
      ],
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        "historical",
        "offensive"
      ]
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    "Rastus"
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  "word": "Rastus"
}