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{ "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English misspellings", "English non-lemma forms", "English nouns" ], "etymology_number": 1, "forms": [ { "form": "lighties", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "lighty (plural lighties)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English slang", "South African English" ], "glosses": [ "A young man; a boy." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(South Africa, slang) A young man; a boy." ], "tags": [ "South-Africa", "slang" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "lightie" } ], "word": "lighty" } { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English misspellings", "English non-lemma forms" ], "etymology_number": 2, "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "misspelling" }, "expansion": "lighty", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adv", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "extra": "however, more often a misspelling of lightly", "word": "lightly" } ], "categories": [ "English misspellings", "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1784, Thomas Percy, “The Hermit of Warkworth, a Northumberland Ballad”, in Thomas Evans, Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date, volume 3, page 23", "text": "That heart, she said, is lighty priz'd, / Which is too lighty won; / And long shall rue that easy maid / Who yields her love too soon.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of lightly; however, more often a misspelling of lightly." ], "links": [ [ "lightly", "lightly#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) Alternative form of lightly; however, more often a misspelling of lightly." ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative", "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "lighty" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "light", "3": "-y", "pos1": "noun" }, "expansion": "light (noun) + -y", "name": "affix" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "-i", "pos": "suffix forming an adjective" }, "expansion": "-i (suffix forming an adjective)", "name": "m" } ], "etymology_text": "From light (noun) + -y, -i (suffix forming an adjective).", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "adjective", "3": "", "4": "{{{1}}}", "5": "", "6": "{{{2}}}", "7": "", "8": "{{{3}}}", "head": "" }, "expansion": "lighty", "name": "head" }, { "args": {}, "expansion": "lighty", "name": "enm-adj" } ], "lang": "Middle English", "lang_code": "enm", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Middle English adjectives", "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "Middle English lemmas", "Middle English terms suffixed with -y" ], "glosses": [ "bright, illuminated, spiritually enlightened" ], "links": [ [ "bright", "bright" ], [ "illuminated", "illuminated" ], [ "enlightened", "enlightened" ] ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "liȝty" }, { "word": "liȝti" } ], "word": "lighty" }
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