"hairplay" meaning in All languages combined

See hairplay on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From hair + play. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hair|play}} hair + play Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} hairplay (uncountable)
  1. The act of playing with one's own or someone else's hair (usually on the head). Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hairplay-en-noun-rl---G87 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hair",
        "3": "play"
      },
      "expansion": "hair + play",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hair + play.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hairplay (uncountable)",
      "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": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, M. G. Lord, Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, page 174:",
          "text": "But because of little girls' fascination with \"hairplay,\" the dolls have lengthy locks.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Rolf Schroers, A Thousand Fathoms Under the Skin, volume 1, page 167:",
          "text": "One could make out a faint sucking-sound^([sic]) coming from her mouth, but the flattened lips would only brush the fine down while two fingers of the other hand went in search of more such hairplay on her—or his—body.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of playing with one's own or someone else's hair (usually on the head)."
      ],
      "id": "en-hairplay-en-noun-rl---G87",
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hairplay"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hair",
        "3": "play"
      },
      "expansion": "hair + play",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hair + play.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hairplay (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, M. G. Lord, Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, page 174:",
          "text": "But because of little girls' fascination with \"hairplay,\" the dolls have lengthy locks.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Rolf Schroers, A Thousand Fathoms Under the Skin, volume 1, page 167:",
          "text": "One could make out a faint sucking-sound^([sic]) coming from her mouth, but the flattened lips would only brush the fine down while two fingers of the other hand went in search of more such hairplay on her—or his—body.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of playing with one's own or someone else's hair (usually on the head)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hairplay"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hairplay meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.