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{
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "gawnt"
},
"expansion": "Middle English gawnt",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gawnte",
"3": "",
"4": "lean, slender"
},
"expansion": "gawnte (“lean, slender”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "jaunet"
},
"expansion": "Old French jaunet",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmq",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "North Germanic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "gandr",
"4": "",
"5": "magic staff, stick"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse gandr (“magic staff, stick”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*gandaz",
"4": "",
"5": "stick, staff"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *gandaz (“stick, staff”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gʷʰen-",
"4": "",
"5": "to beat, hit, drive"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to beat, hit, drive”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "gandur",
"3": "",
"4": "magic staff"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic gandur (“magic staff”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "gand",
"3": "",
"4": "tall pointed stick; tall, thin man"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian gand (“tall pointed stick; tall, thin man”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "gand"
},
"expansion": "Danish gand",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "gan"
},
"expansion": "gan",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "gana",
"3": "",
"4": "cut-off tree limbs"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian gana (“cut-off tree limbs”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "bar",
"2": "Gunten",
"3": "",
"4": "a kind of wedge or peg"
},
"expansion": "Bavarian Gunten (“a kind of wedge or peg”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gūþ",
"3": "",
"4": "battle"
},
"expansion": "Old English gūþ (“battle”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "dēfendō",
"3": "",
"4": "ward off, defend"
},
"expansion": "Latin dēfendō (“ward off, defend”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "gank",
"t": "a lean, emaciated horse"
},
"expansion": "Swedish gank (“a lean, emaciated horse”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English gawnt, gawnte (“lean, slender”), from Old French jaunet, probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source, related to Old Norse gandr (“magic staff, stick”), from Proto-Germanic *gandaz (“stick, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to beat, hit, drive”).\nCognates:\nCognate with Icelandic gandur (“magic staff”), Norwegian gand (“tall pointed stick; tall, thin man”), Danish gand, gan, Norwegian gana (“cut-off tree limbs”), Bavarian Gunten (“a kind of wedge or peg”). Related also to Old English gūþ (“battle”), Latin dēfendō (“ward off, defend”). Compare also dialectal Swedish gank (“a lean, emaciated horse”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gaunter",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "gauntest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "er"
},
"expansion": "gaunt (comparative gaunter, superlative gauntest)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "77 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 53 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Body",
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"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, The Portent",
"text": "Hanging from the beam,\nSlowly swaying (such the law),\nGaunt the shadow on your green,\nShenandoah!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1894, Joseph Jacobs, chapter 1, in The Fables of Aesop, archived from the original on 2011-02-28",
"text": "A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Lean, angular, and bony."
],
"id": "en-gaunt-en-adj-QEsblUeu",
"links": [
[
"Lean",
"lean"
],
[
"angular",
"angular"
],
[
"bony",
"bony"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mǎršav",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "мършав"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kosteliv",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "костелив"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shòuxuē",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "瘦削"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "hubený"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "mager"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "luiseva"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "maigre"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "osseux"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "anguleux"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gamxdari",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "გამხდარი"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mč̣le",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "მჭლე"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "knochig"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "dünn"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "hager"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "mager"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "smagrito"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "allampanato"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "emaciato"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "macilento"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "ossuto"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "scheletrico"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gessoriyaseta",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "げっそりやせた"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "macer"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "denn"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "szczupły"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sfrijit"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jigărit"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ciolănos"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "suxopáryj",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "сухопа́рый"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kostljávyj",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "костля́вый"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tóščij",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "то́щий"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xudój",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "худо́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "koščat"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "suhonjav"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "ispijen"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 1",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "lean, angular and bony",
"word": "achul"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "47 53 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Body",
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"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2024 February 17, “The extraordinary courage of Alexei Navalny”, in FT Weekend, The FT View, page 8",
"text": "Whatever the official cause of his is death is said to be—and Navalny, though gaunt, seemed in good spirits in a court hearing a day earlier—foreign leaders are rightly holding the Kremlin responsible.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Haggard, drawn, and emaciated."
],
"id": "en-gaunt-en-adj-j5m-LNzo",
"links": [
[
"Haggard",
"haggard"
],
[
"drawn",
"drawn"
],
[
"emaciated",
"emaciated"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izmǎčen",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "измъчен"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iztošten",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "изтощен"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "vyzáblý"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "vychrtlý"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "kost a kůže"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "émacié"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ʒalɣone gamoleuli",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "ძალღონე გამოლეული"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ɣonemixdili",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "ღონემიხდილი"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gasavatebuli",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "გასავათებული"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "abgemagert"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "ausgemergelt"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "pakoko"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "pāohe"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "pāhehaheha"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wymizerowany"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "isxudályj",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "исхуда́лый"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "isxudávšij",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "исхуда́вший"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "demacrado"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "chupado"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "haggard, drawn and emaciated",
"word": "macilento"
}
]
},
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{
"ref": "1896, Mary Baker Eddy, “The Way”, in Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, page 355",
"text": "The present stage of progress in Christian Science presents two opposite aspects, — a full-orbed promise, and a gaunt want.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1908, William Hope Hodgson, chapter 14, in The House on the Borderland, archived from the original on 2012-04-14",
"text": "Behind me, rose up, to an extraordinary height, gaunt, black cliffs.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Bleak, barren, and desolate."
],
"id": "en-gaunt-en-adj-nP6rwRXc",
"links": [
[
"Bleak",
"bleak"
],
[
"barren",
"barren"
],
[
"desolate",
"desolate"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mračen",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "мрачен"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zapusnat",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "запуснат"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "bezútěšný"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "pochmurný"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "neutěšený"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "pustý"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "nehostinný"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "karu"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "jylhä"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "bneli",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "ბნელი"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "udaburi",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "უდაბური"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uḳacrieli",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "უკაცრიელი"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "kahl"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "nackt"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "öde"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "verlassen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "trostlos"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "karg"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kōryōtoshita",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "荒涼とした"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "hwangnyanghan",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "황량한"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "hwangpye han",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "황폐 한"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 98",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "bleak, barren, and desolate",
"word": "demacrado"
}
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɡɔːnt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ɡɑːnt/",
"note": "some accents"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːnt"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːnt"
},
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"tags": [
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"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "gônt"
},
{
"enpr": "gänt"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "scraggy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "გასავათებული"
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"word": "უდაბური"
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"word": "황량한"
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"code": "ko",
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"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots verbs"
],
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{
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"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "gaunt",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To yawn."
],
"links": [
[
"yawn",
"yawn"
]
]
}
],
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{
"word": "gant"
}
],
"word": "gaunt"
}
{
"categories": [
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots verbs"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "gaunts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "gaunts",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "gaunt (plural gaunts)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "gaunt (plural gaunts)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A yawn."
],
"links": [
[
"yawn",
"yawn"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "gant"
}
],
"word": "gaunt"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). 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.
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