"cockwomble" meaning in All languages combined

See cockwomble on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: en-uk-cockwomble.ogg [UK] Forms: cockwombles [plural]
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of cock + Womble Etymology templates: {{compound|en|cock|Womble|nocat=1|t1=|t2=}} cock + Womble, {{m+|en|-}} English, {{m+|en|-}} English, {{shitgibbon|en|cock|Womble}} Shitgibbon compound of cock + Womble Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cockwomble (countable and uncountable, plural cockwombles)
  1. (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person. Tags: Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cockwomble-en-noun-7sbh6rQV Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English shitgibbons, Irish English

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for cockwomble meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cock",
        "3": "Womble",
        "nocat": "1",
        "t1": "",
        "t2": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cock + Womble",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "English",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "English",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cock",
        "3": "Womble"
      },
      "expansion": "Shitgibbon compound of cock + Womble",
      "name": "shitgibbon"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Shitgibbon compound of cock + Womble",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cockwombles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "cockwomble (countable and uncountable, plural cockwombles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English shitgibbons",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 October 4, gypsy turnips, “Home » Question of the Week » Insults”, in b3ta.com, archived from the original on 3333-10-10",
          "text": "Cockwomble An American lad was annoying the tits off me once so I called him the first thing that came to mind, which was 'cockwomble'. The insult was effective because he did stop winding me up but only to ask me what a cockwomble actually was. I then had to give a detailed explanation about what wombles were and admit that I hadn't really thought that insult through.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Chris Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking",
          "text": "They even made the mistaken assumption, mainly from the title, that the song had some kind of lesbian message. As Heike put it: 'You can't expect the subliterate cockwombles on the Daily Heil showbiz and gossip desks to have read Orwell.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Jennifer S. Chesler, David C. McLean, The Philosophy of Extremism, volume III, page 40",
          "text": "Though the clinic alleges that they are devoted to \"service to the community\", this little cockwomble allowed his bruised arrogance to bother a woman infinitely superior to him just because she was smarter and better than he.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A foolish or obnoxious person."
      ],
      "id": "en-cockwomble-en-noun-7sbh6rQV",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "UK",
        "countable",
        "derogatory",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-cockwomble.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/73/En-uk-cockwomble.ogg/En-uk-cockwomble.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/En-uk-cockwomble.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cockwomble"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cock",
        "3": "Womble",
        "nocat": "1",
        "t1": "",
        "t2": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cock + Womble",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "English",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "English",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cock",
        "3": "Womble"
      },
      "expansion": "Shitgibbon compound of cock + Womble",
      "name": "shitgibbon"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Shitgibbon compound of cock + Womble",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cockwombles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "cockwomble (countable and uncountable, plural cockwombles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English shitgibbons",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 October 4, gypsy turnips, “Home » Question of the Week » Insults”, in b3ta.com, archived from the original on 3333-10-10",
          "text": "Cockwomble An American lad was annoying the tits off me once so I called him the first thing that came to mind, which was 'cockwomble'. The insult was effective because he did stop winding me up but only to ask me what a cockwomble actually was. I then had to give a detailed explanation about what wombles were and admit that I hadn't really thought that insult through.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Chris Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking",
          "text": "They even made the mistaken assumption, mainly from the title, that the song had some kind of lesbian message. As Heike put it: 'You can't expect the subliterate cockwombles on the Daily Heil showbiz and gossip desks to have read Orwell.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Jennifer S. Chesler, David C. McLean, The Philosophy of Extremism, volume III, page 40",
          "text": "Though the clinic alleges that they are devoted to \"service to the community\", this little cockwomble allowed his bruised arrogance to bother a woman infinitely superior to him just because she was smarter and better than he.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A foolish or obnoxious person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "UK",
        "countable",
        "derogatory",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-cockwomble.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/73/En-uk-cockwomble.ogg/En-uk-cockwomble.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/En-uk-cockwomble.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cockwomble"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). 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.