"giraffess" meaning in All languages combined

See giraffess on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: giraffesses [plural]
Etymology: From giraffe + -ess. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|giraffe|ess<id:female>}} giraffe + -ess Head templates: {{en-noun}} giraffess (plural giraffesses)
  1. (rare) A female giraffe. Tags: rare Categories (lifeform): Even-toed ungulates, Female animals

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "giraffe",
        "3": "ess<id:female>"
      },
      "expansion": "giraffe + -ess",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From giraffe + -ess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "giraffesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "giraffess (plural giraffesses)",
      "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": "English terms suffixed with -ess (female)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Even-toed ungulates",
          "orig": "en:Even-toed ungulates",
          "parents": [
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Female animals",
          "orig": "en:Female animals",
          "parents": [
            "Animals",
            "Female",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Gender",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902 May 4, The Pittsburg Press, volume 19, number 123, Pittsburg, Pa.:",
          "text": "Fable of the Giraffess / Once there was a Beautiful Giraffess, who was Presented at Court. Her Costume was the Limit, and King Lion was much struck by her Beauty and Charm. “I am Delighted to see you,” he said to the Beautiful Giraffess, “but where is your Husband? Was he not also Commanded to Come?” “Yes, Your Majesty,” answered the Beautiful Giraffess, “but he had to Pay so Much Money for my Low-Necked Dress that he could not afford to Buy a Collar for Himself.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907 February 14, The Brewton Standard, volume XX, number 36, Brewton, Ala.:",
          "text": "The tongue of a giraffe is two feet long according to a late authority. He probably didn’t dare mention the length of a giraffess’ tongue.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, J[ohn] H. Cradlebaugh, Nyeena Kloshe Illahee (Songs of the Good Country), Portland, Or.: Press of F. W. Baltes and Company, page 61:",
          "text": "The “giraffesses” gaily sport / Their yellow polka dots / While all the lady zebras shine / In stripes, instead of spots.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954 December 13, Ollie M. James, “Just The Facts, Sir and Ma'am”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 114th year, number 248, Cincinnati, Ohio, page 4:",
          "text": "Now we’re not the type to quarrel with facts and it may be that baby giraffes sometimes are six feet tall at birth (if so, if we were a giraffess, we certainly would be a bachelor girl giraffess, we think.)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 March 22, The Honolulu Advertiser, 106th year, number 53,667, Honolulu, Haw., page B1:",
          "text": "New Giraffess Named Sudan / It’s a girl, Honolulu Zoo Director Paul Breese announced yesterday after the sex of the baby giraffe born to Twiga on Monday had been determined.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female giraffe."
      ],
      "id": "en-giraffess-en-noun-iNZaHzBg",
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "giraffe",
          "giraffe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A female giraffe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "giraffess"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "giraffe",
        "3": "ess<id:female>"
      },
      "expansion": "giraffe + -ess",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From giraffe + -ess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "giraffesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "giraffess (plural giraffesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ess (female)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Even-toed ungulates",
        "en:Female animals"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902 May 4, The Pittsburg Press, volume 19, number 123, Pittsburg, Pa.:",
          "text": "Fable of the Giraffess / Once there was a Beautiful Giraffess, who was Presented at Court. Her Costume was the Limit, and King Lion was much struck by her Beauty and Charm. “I am Delighted to see you,” he said to the Beautiful Giraffess, “but where is your Husband? Was he not also Commanded to Come?” “Yes, Your Majesty,” answered the Beautiful Giraffess, “but he had to Pay so Much Money for my Low-Necked Dress that he could not afford to Buy a Collar for Himself.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907 February 14, The Brewton Standard, volume XX, number 36, Brewton, Ala.:",
          "text": "The tongue of a giraffe is two feet long according to a late authority. He probably didn’t dare mention the length of a giraffess’ tongue.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, J[ohn] H. Cradlebaugh, Nyeena Kloshe Illahee (Songs of the Good Country), Portland, Or.: Press of F. W. Baltes and Company, page 61:",
          "text": "The “giraffesses” gaily sport / Their yellow polka dots / While all the lady zebras shine / In stripes, instead of spots.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954 December 13, Ollie M. James, “Just The Facts, Sir and Ma'am”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 114th year, number 248, Cincinnati, Ohio, page 4:",
          "text": "Now we’re not the type to quarrel with facts and it may be that baby giraffes sometimes are six feet tall at birth (if so, if we were a giraffess, we certainly would be a bachelor girl giraffess, we think.)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 March 22, The Honolulu Advertiser, 106th year, number 53,667, Honolulu, Haw., page B1:",
          "text": "New Giraffess Named Sudan / It’s a girl, Honolulu Zoo Director Paul Breese announced yesterday after the sex of the baby giraffe born to Twiga on Monday had been determined.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female giraffe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "giraffe",
          "giraffe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A female giraffe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "giraffess"
}

Download raw JSONL data for giraffess meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.