giffle in All languages combined

Forms: giffles [present, singular, third-person], giffling [participle, present], giffled [participle, past], giffled [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: From gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”) by metathesis. Etymology templates: {{m|en|gliff|t=a short moment, the twinkling of an eye}} gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} giffle (third-person singular simple present giffles, present participle giffling, simple past and past participle giffled)

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gliff",
        "t": "a short moment, the twinkling of an eye"
      },
      "expansion": "gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”) by metathesis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "giffles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giffling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giffled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giffled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "giffle (third-person singular simple present giffles, present participle giffling, simple past and past participle giffled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "East Anglian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[1897, “Norfolk”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 185, page 147",
          "text": "[…]sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) […]]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be restless or fidgety"
      ],
      "id": "en-giffle-en-verb-Yck5ReVO",
      "links": [
        [
          "fidgety",
          "fidgety"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(East Anglia) to be restless or fidgety"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "giffle-gaffle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "East-Anglia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "giffle"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gliff",
        "t": "a short moment, the twinkling of an eye"
      },
      "expansion": "gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”) by metathesis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "giffles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giffling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giffled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giffled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "giffle (third-person singular simple present giffles, present participle giffling, simple past and past participle giffled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "giffle-gaffle"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "East Anglian English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[1897, “Norfolk”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 185, page 147",
          "text": "[…]sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) […]]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be restless or fidgety"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fidgety",
          "fidgety"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(East Anglia) to be restless or fidgety"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "East-Anglia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "giffle"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). 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.

"giffle" meaning in All languages combined

Verb [English]