"boorjoy" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Humorous respelling of bourgeois, as though so pronounced.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more boorjoy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most boorjoy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "boorjoy (comparative more boorjoy, superlative most boorjoy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite:",
          "text": "…So that was who the sulky bitch was, boorjoy and stuck-up—he'd heard the tale, Alick had sloshed her son down at Gowans.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Louis Bromfield, It Takes All Kinds, page 364:",
          "text": "Once the thing he referred to as \"Boorjoy\" civilization was destroyed, there would be no more room for them, but while it lasted he liked having them about.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bourgeois."
      ],
      "id": "en-boorjoy-en-adj-4yOK8k-m",
      "links": [
        [
          "Bourgeois",
          "bourgeois"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, now rare) Bourgeois."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "boorjoy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Humorous respelling of bourgeois, as though so pronounced.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boorjoys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "boorjoy (plural boorjoys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth:",
          "text": "A lot of the Ellam Street boys read Ruskin and catch ideas about beauty which cause a lot of trouble till the girls get hold of them and marry them and turn them into respectable Boorjoys.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 48:",
          "text": "I'm making an effort towards communal life in the Coloured quarters of our great metropolis, a small light in a naughty world. All the boorjoys are very shocked, of course.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional."
      ],
      "id": "en-boorjoy-en-noun-APyPJnP8",
      "links": [
        [
          "bourgeois",
          "bourgeois"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, now rare) A bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "boorjoy"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Humorous respelling of bourgeois, as though so pronounced.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more boorjoy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most boorjoy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "boorjoy (comparative more boorjoy, superlative most boorjoy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite:",
          "text": "…So that was who the sulky bitch was, boorjoy and stuck-up—he'd heard the tale, Alick had sloshed her son down at Gowans.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Louis Bromfield, It Takes All Kinds, page 364:",
          "text": "Once the thing he referred to as \"Boorjoy\" civilization was destroyed, there would be no more room for them, but while it lasted he liked having them about.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bourgeois."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Bourgeois",
          "bourgeois"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, now rare) Bourgeois."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "boorjoy"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Humorous respelling of bourgeois, as though so pronounced.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boorjoys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "boorjoy (plural boorjoys)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth:",
          "text": "A lot of the Ellam Street boys read Ruskin and catch ideas about beauty which cause a lot of trouble till the girls get hold of them and marry them and turn them into respectable Boorjoys.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 48:",
          "text": "I'm making an effort towards communal life in the Coloured quarters of our great metropolis, a small light in a naughty world. All the boorjoys are very shocked, of course.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bourgeois",
          "bourgeois"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, now rare) A bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "boorjoy"
}