"lightie" meaning in All languages combined

See lightie on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: lighties [plural]
Etymology: From light + -ie. Etymology templates: {{af|en|light|-ie}} light + -ie Head templates: {{en-noun}} lightie (plural lighties)
  1. (South Africa, slang) Alternative form of lighty (“young man; boy”) Tags: South-Africa, alt-of, alternative, slang Alternative form of: lighty (extra: young man; boy)
    Sense id: en-lightie-en-noun-rmuBKz59 Categories (other): South African English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ie Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ie: 84 16
  2. (informal) A black person with relatively light-coloured skin. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-lightie-en-noun-F46xyyVI

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for lightie meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "light",
        "3": "-ie"
      },
      "expansion": "light + -ie",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From light + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lighties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lightie (plural lighties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "young man; boy",
          "word": "lighty"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "South African English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ie",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of lighty (“young man; boy”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-lightie-en-noun-rmuBKz59",
      "links": [
        [
          "lighty",
          "lighty#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Africa, slang) Alternative form of lighty (“young man; boy”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Africa",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Rick Johnson, Heirloom Plantation, page 52",
          "text": "I looked up into that giant's eyes and while I saw curiosity there, I didn't see the anger and hatred I had seen in so many eyes of the black people as they looked down on a lightie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Derek Owusu, Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today",
          "text": "[…] hood-famous Black men and members of their entourages, surrounded by a uniform of attractive young white women and the occasional ambiguous 'lightie.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A black person with relatively light-coloured skin."
      ],
      "id": "en-lightie-en-noun-F46xyyVI",
      "links": [
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A black person with relatively light-coloured skin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lightie"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ie"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "light",
        "3": "-ie"
      },
      "expansion": "light + -ie",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From light + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lighties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lightie (plural lighties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "young man; boy",
          "word": "lighty"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "South African English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of lighty (“young man; boy”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lighty",
          "lighty#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Africa, slang) Alternative form of lighty (“young man; boy”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Africa",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Rick Johnson, Heirloom Plantation, page 52",
          "text": "I looked up into that giant's eyes and while I saw curiosity there, I didn't see the anger and hatred I had seen in so many eyes of the black people as they looked down on a lightie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Derek Owusu, Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today",
          "text": "[…] hood-famous Black men and members of their entourages, surrounded by a uniform of attractive young white women and the occasional ambiguous 'lightie.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A black person with relatively light-coloured skin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A black person with relatively light-coloured skin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lightie"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). 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.