"phedinkus" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined 1935, by Damon Runyon.\nPhonology pseudo-Greek – note the ph. The term may be analyzed as *phe- + dinkus (“contrivance (slang)”), where the prefix is an optional consonant /f/, with the stressless vowel added in the same way as other mutually apophonic prefixes (when the consonant changes, the vowel changes accordingly) such as pi- (pizazz), she- (shebang), etc.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "phedinkus (uncountable)",
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1935, Damon Runyon, “Tobias the Terrible”, collected in Money from home, Frederick A. Stokes company",
          "text": "If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough salt water to start an opposition ocean to the Atlantic and Pacific, with enough left over to run the Great Salt Lake out of business. But I wish to say I never shed any of these tears personally, because I am never in love, and furthermore, barring a bad break, I never expect to be in love, for the way I look at it love is strictly the old phedinkus, and I tell the little guy as much."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Gus Lee, China boy: a novel",
          "text": "Like yur Uncle Shen, or whatsis phedinkus name. Yur fightin a big street lummox who kicks."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nonsense, malarkey"
      ],
      "id": "en-phedinkus-en-noun-x79cpa7m",
      "links": [
        [
          "Nonsense",
          "nonsense"
        ],
        [
          "malarkey",
          "malarkey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare, nonce word) Nonsense, malarkey"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonce-word",
        "obsolete",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Damon Runyon",
        "Pete Hamill"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "phedinkus"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined 1935, by Damon Runyon.\nPhonology pseudo-Greek – note the ph. The term may be analyzed as *phe- + dinkus (“contrivance (slang)”), where the prefix is an optional consonant /f/, with the stressless vowel added in the same way as other mutually apophonic prefixes (when the consonant changes, the vowel changes accordingly) such as pi- (pizazz), she- (shebang), etc.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "phedinkus (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nonce terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1935, Damon Runyon, “Tobias the Terrible”, collected in Money from home, Frederick A. Stokes company",
          "text": "If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough salt water to start an opposition ocean to the Atlantic and Pacific, with enough left over to run the Great Salt Lake out of business. But I wish to say I never shed any of these tears personally, because I am never in love, and furthermore, barring a bad break, I never expect to be in love, for the way I look at it love is strictly the old phedinkus, and I tell the little guy as much."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Gus Lee, China boy: a novel",
          "text": "Like yur Uncle Shen, or whatsis phedinkus name. Yur fightin a big street lummox who kicks."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nonsense, malarkey"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Nonsense",
          "nonsense"
        ],
        [
          "malarkey",
          "malarkey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare, nonce word) Nonsense, malarkey"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonce-word",
        "obsolete",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Damon Runyon",
        "Pete Hamill"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "phedinkus"
}