See birse on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sco",
"3": "birse",
"4": "",
"5": "bristle, hair"
},
"expansion": "Scots birse (“bristle, hair”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Scots birse (“bristle, hair”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scottish English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "69 3 3 1 3 4 2 2 7 3 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 3 2 1 3 3 2 2 6 3 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "birsy"
},
{
"word": "lick the birse"
},
{
"word": "set up someone's birse"
}
],
"glosses": [
"bristle"
],
"id": "en-birse-en-noun-XO0s38cw",
"links": [
[
"bristle",
"bristle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland) bristle"
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɜː(ɹ)s/"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "bristles",
"tags": [
"diminutive"
],
"word": "birsies"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "to make angry or ill-tempered",
"word": "pit the birse up"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "the ace of spades",
"word": "whirl o birse"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "birses",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "57 0 35 8 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "sco",
"name": "Hair",
"orig": "sco:Hair",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"bristle, hair"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-noun-QkRq8tO~",
"links": [
[
"bristle",
"bristle"
],
[
"hair",
"hair"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "8 20 2 10 15 6 5 18 8 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sheaf, plume (of bristles)"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-noun-lsT0W3k4",
"links": [
[
"sheaf",
"sheaf"
],
[
"plume",
"plume"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"beard"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-noun-lBGSq7CG",
"links": [
[
"beard",
"beard"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "8 20 2 10 15 6 5 18 8 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 6 6 43 8 0 7 14 6 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "sco",
"name": "Emotions",
"orig": "sco:Emotions",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"anger, temper"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-noun-pvD46Duh",
"links": [
[
"anger",
"anger"
],
[
"temper",
"temper"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɪrs]"
},
{
"ipa": "[bʌrs]"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "bristly, hairy; hot-tempered, passionate; of the weather: keen, sharp; difficult",
"word": "birsie"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "a shoemaker's thread",
"word": "birsed-ends"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "birsin",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "birsed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "birsed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birses",
"name": "sco-verb/getPres3rdSg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsin",
"name": "sco-verb/getPresP"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsed",
"name": "sco-verb/getPast"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsed",
"name": "sco-verb/getPastP"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "birsed",
"2": "verbs",
"3": "third-person singular simple present",
"4": "birses",
"5": "present participle",
"6": "birsin",
"7": "simple past",
"8": "birsed",
"9": "past participle",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "birse (third-person singular simple present birses, present participle birsin, simple past birsed, past participle birsed)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birse (third-person singular simple present birses, present participle birsin, simple past birsed, past participle birsed)",
"name": "sco-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to put a bristle on"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-verb-2ITbxUnV",
"links": [
[
"bristle",
"bristle"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "8 20 2 10 15 6 5 18 8 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to flare up, get angry"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-verb-nx5Zp4~4",
"links": [
[
"flare up",
"flare up"
],
[
"angry",
"angry"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɪrs]"
},
{
"ipa": "[bʌrs]"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "birses",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "sco",
"name": "Medicine",
"orig": "sco:Medicine",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "8 20 2 10 15 6 5 18 8 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"bruise"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-noun-qfS4oFh6",
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"bruise",
"bruise"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine) bruise"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"pressure"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-noun-tmdEbm6y",
"links": [
[
"pressure",
"pressure"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɪrz]"
},
{
"ipa": "[bʌrz]"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "move along a bit",
"word": "birse ben a bit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "push to",
"word": "birse tae"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "birsin",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "birsed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "birsed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birses",
"name": "sco-verb/getPres3rdSg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsin",
"name": "sco-verb/getPresP"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsed",
"name": "sco-verb/getPast"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsed",
"name": "sco-verb/getPastP"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "birsed",
"2": "verbs",
"3": "third-person singular simple present",
"4": "birses",
"5": "present participle",
"6": "birsin",
"7": "simple past",
"8": "birsed",
"9": "past participle",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "birse (third-person singular simple present birses, present participle birsin, simple past birsed, past participle birsed)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birse (third-person singular simple present birses, present participle birsin, simple past birsed, past participle birsed)",
"name": "sco-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to bruise"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-verb-hLfjey5f"
},
{
"glosses": [
"to push, press, squeeze"
],
"id": "en-birse-sco-verb-lxHpwgsu"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɪrz]"
},
{
"ipa": "[bʌrz]"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"sco:Emotions",
"sco:Hair"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "birsy"
},
{
"word": "lick the birse"
},
{
"word": "set up someone's birse"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sco",
"3": "birse",
"4": "",
"5": "bristle, hair"
},
"expansion": "Scots birse (“bristle, hair”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Scots birse (“bristle, hair”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Scots",
"English terms derived from Scots",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
"bristle"
],
"links": [
[
"bristle",
"bristle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland) bristle"
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɜː(ɹ)s/"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots verbs",
"sco:Emotions",
"sco:Hair"
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "bristles",
"tags": [
"diminutive"
],
"word": "birsies"
},
{
"english": "to make angry or ill-tempered",
"word": "pit the birse up"
},
{
"english": "the ace of spades",
"word": "whirl o birse"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "birses",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"bristle, hair"
],
"links": [
[
"bristle",
"bristle"
],
[
"hair",
"hair"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"sheaf, plume (of bristles)"
],
"links": [
[
"sheaf",
"sheaf"
],
[
"plume",
"plume"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"beard"
],
"links": [
[
"beard",
"beard"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"anger, temper"
],
"links": [
[
"anger",
"anger"
],
[
"temper",
"temper"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɪrs]"
},
{
"ipa": "[bʌrs]"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots verbs",
"sco:Emotions",
"sco:Hair"
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "bristly, hairy; hot-tempered, passionate; of the weather: keen, sharp; difficult",
"word": "birsie"
},
{
"english": "a shoemaker's thread",
"word": "birsed-ends"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "birsin",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "birsed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "birsed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birses",
"name": "sco-verb/getPres3rdSg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsin",
"name": "sco-verb/getPresP"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsed",
"name": "sco-verb/getPast"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsed",
"name": "sco-verb/getPastP"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "birsed",
"2": "verbs",
"3": "third-person singular simple present",
"4": "birses",
"5": "present participle",
"6": "birsin",
"7": "simple past",
"8": "birsed",
"9": "past participle",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "birse (third-person singular simple present birses, present participle birsin, simple past birsed, past participle birsed)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birse (third-person singular simple present birses, present participle birsin, simple past birsed, past participle birsed)",
"name": "sco-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to put a bristle on"
],
"links": [
[
"bristle",
"bristle"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to flare up, get angry"
],
"links": [
[
"flare up",
"flare up"
],
[
"angry",
"angry"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɪrs]"
},
{
"ipa": "[bʌrs]"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots verbs",
"sco:Emotions",
"sco:Hair"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "birses",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "birse (plural birses)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"sco:Medicine"
],
"glosses": [
"bruise"
],
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"bruise",
"bruise"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine) bruise"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"pressure"
],
"links": [
[
"pressure",
"pressure"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɪrz]"
},
{
"ipa": "[bʌrz]"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots verbs",
"sco:Emotions",
"sco:Hair"
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "move along a bit",
"word": "birse ben a bit"
},
{
"english": "push to",
"word": "birse tae"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "birses",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "birsin",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "birsed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "birsed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birses",
"name": "sco-verb/getPres3rdSg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsin",
"name": "sco-verb/getPresP"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsed",
"name": "sco-verb/getPast"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birsed",
"name": "sco-verb/getPastP"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "birsed",
"2": "verbs",
"3": "third-person singular simple present",
"4": "birses",
"5": "present participle",
"6": "birsin",
"7": "simple past",
"8": "birsed",
"9": "past participle",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "birse (third-person singular simple present birses, present participle birsin, simple past birsed, past participle birsed)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "birses",
"2": "birsin",
"3": "birsed",
"4": "birsed"
},
"expansion": "birse (third-person singular simple present birses, present participle birsin, simple past birsed, past participle birsed)",
"name": "sco-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to bruise"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to push, press, squeeze"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɪrz]"
},
{
"ipa": "[bʌrz]"
}
],
"word": "birse"
}
Download raw JSONL data for birse meaning in All languages combined (7.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-20 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). 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.