"maypole" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: maypoles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} maypole (plural maypoles)
  1. A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day. Translations (pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day): عَمُود الرَّقْص (ʕamūd ar-raqṣ) [masculine] (Arabic), májka [feminine] (Czech), máje [feminine] (Czech), majstang (Danish), midsommerstang (Danish), meiboom (Dutch), juhannussalko (Finnish), arbre de mai (French), Maibaum [masculine] (German), maistang (Norwegian), midtsommerstang (Norwegian), midsommarstång [common-gender] (Swedish), majstång [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. (idiomatic) A very tall girl or young lady. Tags: idiomatic
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  3. (ornithology) A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird. Categories (topical): Ornithology, Genitalia
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  4. (euphemistic) A penis, especially a large one. Tags: euphemistic
    Sense id: en-maypole-en-noun-hDTL5NBO Categories (other): English euphemisms
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: may-pole

Verb [English]

Forms: maypoles [present, singular, third-person], maypoling [participle, present], maypoled [participle, past], maypoled [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} maypole (third-person singular simple present maypoles, present participle maypoling, simple past and past participle maypoled)
  1. To dance or spin in a circle around something.
    Sense id: en-maypole-en-verb-qE2SS~po
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: may-pole

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day",
      "word": "meiboom"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day",
      "word": "juhannussalko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day",
      "word": "arbre de mai"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Maibaum"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day",
      "word": "maistang"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day",
      "word": "midtsommerstang"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "midsommarstång"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "majstång"
    }
  ],
  "word": "maypole"
}

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    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maypoles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maypoling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maypoled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maypoled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "maypole (third-person singular simple present maypoles, present participle maypoling, simple past and past participle maypoled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Julie Clark, Asperger's in Pink, page 223:",
          "text": "Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Simon Brett, Cast in Order of Disappearance:",
          "text": "The line jerked and maypoled itself around the rod.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dance or spin in a circle around something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dance",
          "dance"
        ],
        [
          "spin",
          "spin"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "may-pole"
    }
  ],
  "word": "maypole"
}

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