"crazy bone" meaning in All languages combined

See crazy bone on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: crazy bones [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} crazy bone (plural crazy bones)
  1. The funny bone; the ulnar nerve in the elbow.
    Sense id: en-crazy_bone-en-noun-5Oioe296 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crazy bones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "crazy bone (plural crazy bones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1830, Mrs. John Farrar, The Children's Robinson Crusoe, page 318:",
          "text": "I have seen a person in England, who had touched a torpedo; and he said the shock it gave him, was like striking that tender part of the elbow, which we call the crazy bone, very hard indeed;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Thomas S. Purtell, Natural Martial Arts, page 34:",
          "text": "My hand was at his elbow, my fingers just at the indentation of his elbow, just about where you bump the nerve point everyone calls the “crazy-bone”.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The funny bone; the ulnar nerve in the elbow."
      ],
      "id": "en-crazy_bone-en-noun-5Oioe296",
      "links": [
        [
          "funny bone",
          "funny bone"
        ],
        [
          "ulnar",
          "ulnar"
        ],
        [
          "nerve",
          "nerve"
        ],
        [
          "elbow",
          "elbow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "crazy bone"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crazy bones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "crazy bone (plural crazy bones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1830, Mrs. John Farrar, The Children's Robinson Crusoe, page 318:",
          "text": "I have seen a person in England, who had touched a torpedo; and he said the shock it gave him, was like striking that tender part of the elbow, which we call the crazy bone, very hard indeed;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Thomas S. Purtell, Natural Martial Arts, page 34:",
          "text": "My hand was at his elbow, my fingers just at the indentation of his elbow, just about where you bump the nerve point everyone calls the “crazy-bone”.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The funny bone; the ulnar nerve in the elbow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "funny bone",
          "funny bone"
        ],
        [
          "ulnar",
          "ulnar"
        ],
        [
          "nerve",
          "nerve"
        ],
        [
          "elbow",
          "elbow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "crazy bone"
}

Download raw JSONL data for crazy bone meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.