"greek it" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greeks it",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greeking it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greeked it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greeked it",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "greek it (third-person singular simple present greeks it, present participle greeking it, simple past and past participle greeked it)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Greek it"
        }
      ],
      "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 with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1799, Edward Dubois, A Piece of Family Biography, volume II, page 20:",
          "text": "Supper being over, the lawyer took his leave, and the doctor began to ſound the learned clerk reſpecting his proficiency in the dead languages. \"As to dead languages,\" replied the ſchoolmafter, \"I was once a vaſt pretty ſcholar indeed, but want of exercise has made me main ſlack—I can't get over my ground as I uſed to do. Then as to the t'other dead fellow, I could never greek it at all, that's flat. And, Lord bleſs you! my Latin is of no more uſe to me here than—than—\" Here he ſtuck for want of a ſimile; when Mr. Le Dupe helped him out by ſaying, \"that it is to a young man at college, where it is conſidered a pedantic inſult, and an unpardonable bore, to utter a Latin ſentence.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Greek it."
      ],
      "id": "en-greek_it-en-verb-jGWw9W0r",
      "links": [
        [
          "Greek it",
          "Greek it#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of Greek it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "greek it"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greeks it",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greeking it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greeked it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greeked it",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "greek it (third-person singular simple present greeks it, present participle greeking it, simple past and past participle greeked it)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Greek it"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1799, Edward Dubois, A Piece of Family Biography, volume II, page 20:",
          "text": "Supper being over, the lawyer took his leave, and the doctor began to ſound the learned clerk reſpecting his proficiency in the dead languages. \"As to dead languages,\" replied the ſchoolmafter, \"I was once a vaſt pretty ſcholar indeed, but want of exercise has made me main ſlack—I can't get over my ground as I uſed to do. Then as to the t'other dead fellow, I could never greek it at all, that's flat. And, Lord bleſs you! my Latin is of no more uſe to me here than—than—\" Here he ſtuck for want of a ſimile; when Mr. Le Dupe helped him out by ſaying, \"that it is to a young man at college, where it is conſidered a pedantic inſult, and an unpardonable bore, to utter a Latin ſentence.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Greek it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Greek it",
          "Greek it#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of Greek it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "greek it"
}