See kinker on Wiktionary
{ "forms": [ { "form": "kinkers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "kinker (plural kinkers)", "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": "1933, Amateur Movie Makers, volume 8, page 150:", "text": "[…] the high trapeze \"kinkers\" go through their \"flying\" act; but in a montage treatment of filming the children's trip to the circus, it could be used with striking effect as a comment on their imitation of the thrilling action.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2006, Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, pages 36–37:", "text": "\"So, what's the vernacular then?\" I say finally. ¶ \"They're called kinkers,\" says Camel...\"don't you go calling them 'kinkers' to their faces, neither.\" ¶ \"What do I call them?\" ¶ \"Performers...There's them and there's us, and you're us,\" says Camel.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A performer in a circus." ], "hypernyms": [ { "word": "performer" } ], "id": "en-kinker-en-noun-htR96Pxn", "links": [ [ "performer", "performer" ], [ "circus", "circus" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(circus, slang) A performer in a circus." ], "tags": [ "slang" ], "topics": [ "arts", "circus", "hobbies", "lifestyle", "performing-arts", "sports" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-kinker.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/23/En-au-kinker.ogg/En-au-kinker.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/En-au-kinker.ogg" } ], "word": "kinker" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "kinkers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "kinker (plural kinkers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "hypernyms": [ { "word": "performer" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English slang", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1933, Amateur Movie Makers, volume 8, page 150:", "text": "[…] the high trapeze \"kinkers\" go through their \"flying\" act; but in a montage treatment of filming the children's trip to the circus, it could be used with striking effect as a comment on their imitation of the thrilling action.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2006, Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, pages 36–37:", "text": "\"So, what's the vernacular then?\" I say finally. ¶ \"They're called kinkers,\" says Camel...\"don't you go calling them 'kinkers' to their faces, neither.\" ¶ \"What do I call them?\" ¶ \"Performers...There's them and there's us, and you're us,\" says Camel.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A performer in a circus." ], "links": [ [ "performer", "performer" ], [ "circus", "circus" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(circus, slang) A performer in a circus." ], "tags": [ "slang" ], "topics": [ "arts", "circus", "hobbies", "lifestyle", "performing-arts", "sports" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-kinker.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/23/En-au-kinker.ogg/En-au-kinker.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/En-au-kinker.ogg" } ], "word": "kinker" }
Download raw JSONL data for kinker meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)
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.