See fforde on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "A variant of Forde/Ford: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare ffrench.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "fforde", "name": "en-proper noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English surnames", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 81, 87 ], [ 239, 245 ] ], "ref": "2017, Sarah Winterton, The Wintertons Unmuzzled: The Life & Times of Nick & Ann Winterton, Two Westminster Mavericks, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:", "text": "[...] his 'crime' was discovered, was summoned to see the headmaster, Sir Arthur fforde. It could potentially have been a flogging offence, but the headmaster, bizarrely, offered him a glass of nonalcoholic sherry. It no doubt helped that fforde, like [...]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A surname: compare Fforde." ], "id": "en-fforde-en-name-t-4G5wyb", "links": [ [ "surname", "surname" ], [ "Fforde", "Fforde" ] ] } ], "word": "fforde" }
{ "etymology_text": "A variant of Forde/Ford: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare ffrench.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "fforde", "name": "en-proper noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English proper nouns", "English surnames", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 81, 87 ], [ 239, 245 ] ], "ref": "2017, Sarah Winterton, The Wintertons Unmuzzled: The Life & Times of Nick & Ann Winterton, Two Westminster Mavericks, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:", "text": "[...] his 'crime' was discovered, was summoned to see the headmaster, Sir Arthur fforde. It could potentially have been a flogging offence, but the headmaster, bizarrely, offered him a glass of nonalcoholic sherry. It no doubt helped that fforde, like [...]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A surname: compare Fforde." ], "links": [ [ "surname", "surname" ], [ "Fforde", "Fforde" ] ] } ], "word": "fforde" }
Download raw JSONL data for fforde meaning in All languages combined (1.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (c3cc510 and 1d3fdbf). 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.