"Whit" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Whits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Whit (plural Whits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "9 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
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            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
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        },
        {
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          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
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            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Calendar",
          "orig": "en:Calendar",
          "parents": [
            "Timekeeping",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "Whit Monday"
        },
        {
          "word": "Whit Saturday"
        },
        {
          "word": "Whit Sunday"
        },
        {
          "word": "Whitsun"
        },
        {
          "word": "Whitsunday"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The season of Whitsuntide."
      ],
      "id": "en-Whit-en-noun-kpCq7ygn",
      "links": [
        [
          "Whitsuntide",
          "Whitsuntide"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whit"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of the surname of Dick Whittington, London mayor who funded the rebuilding of the prison.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Whit",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "the Whit"
      },
      "expansion": "the Whit",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English Thieves' Cant",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman",
          "text": "A Bow Street Runner says \"I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 5, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Verso Books",
          "text": "One of the strong drinks brewed in the Whit, a place as noted for the variety of its potions as the irony of its expressions, was called 'South Sea'. The gin brewed in Newgate was […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s)."
      ],
      "id": "en-Whit-en-name-J40a1zS~",
      "qualifier": "now archaic or historical",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(originally thieves' cant, now archaic or historical) Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s)."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whit"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Calendar"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Whit Monday"
    },
    {
      "word": "Whit Saturday"
    },
    {
      "word": "Whit Sunday"
    },
    {
      "word": "Whitsun"
    },
    {
      "word": "Whitsunday"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Whits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Whit (plural Whits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The season of Whitsuntide."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Whitsuntide",
          "Whitsuntide"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whit"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Calendar"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of the surname of Dick Whittington, London mayor who funded the rebuilding of the prison.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Whit",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "the Whit"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English Thieves' Cant",
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        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman",
          "text": "A Bow Street Runner says \"I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 5, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Verso Books",
          "text": "One of the strong drinks brewed in the Whit, a place as noted for the variety of its potions as the irony of its expressions, was called 'South Sea'. The gin brewed in Newgate was […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s)."
      ],
      "qualifier": "now archaic or historical",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(originally thieves' cant, now archaic or historical) Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s)."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whit"
}