See joey on Wiktionary
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"sense": "kangaroo joey",
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"English derogatory terms",
"English offensive terms",
"English slang"
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"glosses": [
"A person with cerebral palsy."
],
"links": [
[
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"derogatory"
],
[
"cerebral palsy",
"cerebral palsy"
]
],
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"(dated, slang, derogatory, offensive in British) A person with cerebral palsy."
],
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"in British"
],
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"dated",
"derogatory",
"offensive",
"slang"
]
},
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"British English",
"English dated terms",
"English derogatory terms",
"English offensive terms",
"English slang"
],
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"A stupid person."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
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],
[
"stupid",
"stupid"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated, slang, derogatory, offensive in British) A stupid person."
],
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"in British"
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"offensive",
"slang"
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}
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"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/"
},
{
"enpr": "jōˈ.ē"
},
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"audio": "en-us-joey.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/96/En-us-joey.ogg/En-us-joey.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/En-us-joey.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊi"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Blue Peter",
"Joey Deacon"
],
"word": "joey"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/əʊi",
"Rhymes:English/əʊi/2 syllables",
"en:Baby animals",
"en:Circus",
"en:Marsupials",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 5,
"etymology_text": "Said to have been named after Scottish politician Joseph Hume (1777–1855).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "joeys",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "joey (plural joeys)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English slang",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a joey of brandy"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A fourpenny piece, or its value; fourpence worth."
],
"links": [
[
"fourpenny",
"fourpenny"
]
],
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"(UK, slang, obsolete) A fourpenny piece, or its value; fourpence worth."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
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"slang"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/"
},
{
"enpr": "jōˈ.ē"
},
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"audio": "en-us-joey.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/96/En-us-joey.ogg/En-us-joey.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/En-us-joey.ogg"
},
{
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}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Joseph Hume"
],
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}
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"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": xiǎo dàishǔ vs. xiǎodàishǔ",
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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.
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