See fly-paper on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "fly-papers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "fly-paper (countable and uncountable, plural fly-papers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "flypaper"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1896, The Maybrick Case, a Statement of the Case as a Whole:",
"text": ": Mrs. Maybrick purchased these fly-papers from two chemists' shops, where she was well known.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Mark Twain, “The Supremacy of the House Fly”, in Microfilm Edition of Mark Tawin's Literary Manuscripts Available in the Mark Twain Pages, The Bancroft Library, Univeristy of California, Berkeley:",
"text": "Fly-paper has accomplished nothing. The percentage of flies that get hitched to it is but one in the hundred, and the other ninety-nine assemble as at a circus and enjoy the.performance.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl: Three Tales of Magic and Mischief, page 306:",
"text": "We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of flypaper"
],
"id": "en-fly-paper-en-noun-aBhuANsR",
"links": [
[
"flypaper",
"flypaper#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "fly-paper"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "fly-papers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "fly-papering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "fly-papered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "fly-papered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "fly-paper (third-person singular simple present fly-papers, present participle fly-papering, simple past and past participle fly-papered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "flypaper"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1976, Stephen Longstreet, God and Sarah Pedlock, page 356:",
"text": "Be firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1983, Auren Uris, John J. Tarrant, Career stages: surmounting the crises of working life, page 47:",
"text": "For people who fear getting fly-papered by a first job, the Tremayne case makes it clear that the first job can be a stepping-stone to bigger and better things.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Iain M. Suthers, David Rissik, Plankton:",
"text": "Once Pleurobrachia senses it has 'fly-papered' a copepod onto a tentacle, it spins its body to rapidly wrap its tentacles around the body, somehow wiping the copepod across the single body opening to the central gut.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of flypaper"
],
"id": "en-fly-paper-en-verb-aBhuANsR",
"links": [
[
"flypaper",
"flypaper#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "fly-paper"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "fly-papers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "fly-paper (countable and uncountable, plural fly-papers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "flypaper"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1896, The Maybrick Case, a Statement of the Case as a Whole:",
"text": ": Mrs. Maybrick purchased these fly-papers from two chemists' shops, where she was well known.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Mark Twain, “The Supremacy of the House Fly”, in Microfilm Edition of Mark Tawin's Literary Manuscripts Available in the Mark Twain Pages, The Bancroft Library, Univeristy of California, Berkeley:",
"text": "Fly-paper has accomplished nothing. The percentage of flies that get hitched to it is but one in the hundred, and the other ninety-nine assemble as at a circus and enjoy the.performance.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl: Three Tales of Magic and Mischief, page 306:",
"text": "We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of flypaper"
],
"links": [
[
"flypaper",
"flypaper#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "fly-paper"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "fly-papers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "fly-papering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "fly-papered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "fly-papered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "fly-paper (third-person singular simple present fly-papers, present participle fly-papering, simple past and past participle fly-papered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "flypaper"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1976, Stephen Longstreet, God and Sarah Pedlock, page 356:",
"text": "Be firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1983, Auren Uris, John J. Tarrant, Career stages: surmounting the crises of working life, page 47:",
"text": "For people who fear getting fly-papered by a first job, the Tremayne case makes it clear that the first job can be a stepping-stone to bigger and better things.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Iain M. Suthers, David Rissik, Plankton:",
"text": "Once Pleurobrachia senses it has 'fly-papered' a copepod onto a tentacle, it spins its body to rapidly wrap its tentacles around the body, somehow wiping the copepod across the single body opening to the central gut.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of flypaper"
],
"links": [
[
"flypaper",
"flypaper#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "fly-paper"
}
Download raw JSONL data for fly-paper meaning in All languages combined (3.3kB)
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.