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"expansion": "glitsch (“slide, glide, slip”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "-ig",
"3": "",
"4": "-y"
},
"expansion": "-ig (“-y”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "gleiten",
"3": "",
"4": "glide"
},
"expansion": "gleiten (“glide”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "glisser",
"3": "",
"4": "to slip, to slide, to skid"
},
"expansion": "French glisser (“to slip, to slide, to skid”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitsch (“slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, to slide, to skid”).\nPopularized 1960s, by US space program. Attested 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "glitches",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "glitching",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "glitched",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "glitched",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "glitch (third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "My computer keeps glitching; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC",
"text": "Jake’s parents, played unnervingly well by Colette and Thewlis, are like alien robots who have been programmed to behave like human beings, but keep glitching.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction."
],
"links": [
[
"unexpected",
"unexpected"
],
[
"intermittent",
"intermittent"
],
[
"malfunction",
"malfunction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, especially of machines) To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of machines"
],
"tags": [
"especially",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Video games"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game."
],
"links": [
[
"video game",
"video game"
],
[
"exploit",
"exploit"
],
[
"bug",
"bug"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"topics": [
"video-games"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɡlɪt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪtʃ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-glitch.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-glitch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-glitch.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-glitch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-glitch.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"John Glenn"
],
"word": "glitch"
}
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