"caboose" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /kəˈbuːs/ Audio: En-au-caboose.ogg [Australia] Forms: cabooses [plural]
Rhymes: -uːs Etymology: From French cambuse, from Middle Dutch kabuys, kabuis (Modern Dutch kombuis (“galley; kitchen”)). Cognate with Swedish kabyss. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|cambuse}} French cambuse, {{der|en|dum|kabuys}} Middle Dutch kabuys, {{m|dum|kabuis}} kabuis, {{cog|nl|kombuis|t=galley; kitchen}} Dutch kombuis (“galley; kitchen”), {{cognate|sv|kabyss}} Swedish kabyss Head templates: {{en-noun}} caboose (plural cabooses)
  1. (obsolete, nautical) A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Nautical Translations (nautical: small galley): kapyysi (Finnish), Kombüse [feminine] (German), ка́мбуз (kámbuz) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-caboose-en-noun-mJHTS9X0 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 14 7 16 27 14 22 Topics: nautical, transport Disambiguation of 'nautical: small galley': 45 19 12 5 9 10
  2. (historical, nautical) A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-caboose-en-noun-BI07Y3SK Topics: nautical, transport
  3. (US, rail transport) The last car on a freight train, having cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van. Tags: US Categories (topical): Rail transportation Synonyms: guard's van [obsolete] Translations (last car on a train): jarruvaunu (Finnish), Güterzugbegleitwagen [masculine] (German), Bremserwagen [masculine] (German), за́дний тормозно́й ваго́н (zádnij tormoznój vagón) [masculine] (Russian), тормозно́й ваго́н сза́ди (tormoznój vagón szádi) [masculine] (Russian), furgón de cola [masculine] (Spanish), vagón de cola [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-caboose-en-noun-tPE9EG~y Categories (other): American English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 14 7 16 27 14 22 Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport Disambiguation of 'last car on a train': 7 6 78 0 8 0
  4. (slang, childish, euphemistic) The buttocks. Tags: childish, euphemistic, slang Categories (topical): Buttocks Translations (babytalk: buttocks): achterste [neuter] (Dutch), poep [Belgium, masculine] (Dutch), postaĵo (Esperanto), peppu (Finnish), Hintern [masculine] (German), за́дница (zádnica) [feminine] (Russian), pompis [masculine] (Spanish), pompi [masculine] (Spanish), poto [Chile, masculine] (Spanish), colita [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-caboose-en-noun-XkqOSKZ3 Disambiguation of Buttocks: 3 1 6 76 8 6 Categories (other): English euphemisms, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 14 7 16 27 14 22 Disambiguation of 'babytalk: buttocks': 2 2 3 86 3 5
  5. (slang, sports) The person or team in last place. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Sports Translations (sports: person or team in the last place): peränpitäjä (Finnish), hännänhuippu (Finnish), аутса́йдер (autsájder) [masculine] (Russian), colista [feminine, masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-caboose-en-noun-fiMeYYYo Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 14 7 16 27 14 22 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'sports: person or team in the last place': 1 1 6 0 84 8
  6. (informal, often in combination) A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time. Tags: in-compounds, informal, often Translations (youngest child): vejškrabek [masculine] (Czech), posledníček [masculine] (Czech), výškrabek [masculine] (Czech), podškrabek [masculine] (Czech), efternøler [common-gender] (Danish), iltatähti (Finnish), attpåklatt [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), sladdbarn [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-caboose-en-noun-Uan5WAVv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 9 13 18 20 26 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 14 7 16 27 14 22 Disambiguation of 'youngest child': 1 2 4 1 1 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: camboose, cambouse

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      "ipa": "/kəˈbuːs/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-uːs"
    },
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      "audio": "En-au-caboose.ogg",
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      "tags": [
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    }
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    }
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}
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/uːs",
    "Rhymes:English/uːs/2 syllables",
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        "3": "cambuse"
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      "name": "der"
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        "2": "dum",
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      },
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      },
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From French cambuse, from Middle Dutch kabuys, kabuis (Modern Dutch kombuis (“galley; kitchen”)). Cognate with Swedish kabyss.",
  "forms": [
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      "tags": [
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      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel."
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          "nautical"
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        "(obsolete, nautical) A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel."
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        "transport"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1821, Owen Chase, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex …",
          "text": "On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boats, entirely destroyed two others, and threw down the cambouse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1841, Journal of the Franklin Institute, page 113",
          "text": "This stove is to be made in the form of a Franklin, but is to be furnished with an oven, and other means of cooking; its appearance is therefore more like that of the old fashioned caboose, than of a Franklin stove.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881, Eliza Davies, The Story of an Earnest Life, page 226",
          "text": "A tremendous billow, fringed with foam, swept over our deck, carrying the cook's caboose, cooking utensils and stove right overboard into the sea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Don Philpott, Cayman Islands",
          "text": "The kitchens were kept separate because cooking was done in a caboose, a wooden box filled with sand and heated by a wood fire.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "sand",
          "sand"
        ],
        [
          "oven",
          "oven"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, nautical) A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The last car on a freight train, having cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "car",
          "car"
        ],
        [
          "freight",
          "freight"
        ],
        [
          "train",
          "train"
        ],
        [
          "cooking",
          "cooking"
        ],
        [
          "sleeping",
          "sleeping"
        ],
        [
          "facilities",
          "facilities"
        ],
        [
          "crew",
          "crew"
        ],
        [
          "guard",
          "guard"
        ],
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          "van",
          "van"
        ]
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        "(US, rail transport) The last car on a freight train, having cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van."
      ],
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          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "guard's van"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English childish terms",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The buttocks."
      ],
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          "childish"
        ],
        [
          "buttocks",
          "buttocks"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, childish, euphemistic) The buttocks."
      ],
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        "childish",
        "euphemistic",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The person or team in last place."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, sports) The person or team in last place."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1987, Harriet Wallace Rose, Something's Wrong with My Child!",
          "text": "Jimmy was seven and had just finished first grade, so that made Nancy our caboose baby — our bonus child — our swan song.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Growing Child Research Review - Volumes 5-7",
          "text": "\"Caboose\" children, the late-born last offspring in the family, didn't suffer from this as much.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Beth K. Vogt, Baby Changes Everything, page 145",
          "text": "After looking back on her own experience, she thought of some ways parents could help ease the transition for their caboose kid.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time."
      ],
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        "(informal, often in combination) A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time."
      ],
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        "in-compounds",
        "informal",
        "often"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/kəˈbuːs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːs"
    },
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      "audio": "En-au-caboose.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/08/En-au-caboose.ogg/En-au-caboose.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/En-au-caboose.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "camboose"
    },
    {
      "word": "cambouse"
    }
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nautical: small galley",
      "word": "kapyysi"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nautical: small galley",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kombüse"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kámbuz",
      "sense": "nautical: small galley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ка́мбуз"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "last car on a train",
      "word": "jarruvaunu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "last car on a train",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Güterzugbegleitwagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "last car on a train",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bremserwagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zádnij tormoznój vagón",
      "sense": "last car on a train",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "за́дний тормозно́й ваго́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tormoznój vagón szádi",
      "sense": "last car on a train",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тормозно́й ваго́н сза́ди"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "last car on a train",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "furgón de cola"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "last car on a train",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vagón de cola"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "achterste"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "tags": [
        "Belgium",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "poep"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "word": "postaĵo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "word": "peppu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hintern"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zádnica",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "за́дница"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pompis"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pompi"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "tags": [
        "Chile",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "poto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "babytalk: buttocks",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "colita"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sports: person or team in the last place",
      "word": "peränpitäjä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sports: person or team in the last place",
      "word": "hännänhuippu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "autsájder",
      "sense": "sports: person or team in the last place",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "аутса́йдер"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sports: person or team in the last place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colista"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "youngest child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vejškrabek"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "youngest child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "posledníček"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "youngest child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "výškrabek"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "youngest child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "podškrabek"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "youngest child",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "efternøler"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "youngest child",
      "word": "iltatähti"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "youngest child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "attpåklatt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "youngest child",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sladdbarn"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "caboose"
  ],
  "word": "caboose"
}

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