"scathy" meaning in All languages combined

See scathy on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more scathy [comparative], most scathy [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English scathi, from Old English *scaþiġ, sċeaþiġ (“injurious”), equivalent to scathe + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scathi}} Middle English scathi, {{inh|en|ang|*scaþiġ}} Old English *scaþiġ, {{suf|en|scathe|y|id2=adjectival}} scathe + -y Head templates: {{en-adj}} scathy (comparative more scathy, superlative most scathy)
  1. (UK, dialect, archaic) Mischievous; vicious; dangerous. Tags: UK, archaic, dialectal
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "scathi"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English scathi",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*scaþiġ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *scaþiġ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "scathe",
        "3": "y",
        "id2": "adjectival"
      },
      "expansion": "scathe + -y",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English scathi, from Old English *scaþiġ, sċeaþiġ (“injurious”), equivalent to scathe + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more scathy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most scathy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scathy (comparative more scathy, superlative most scathy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mischievous; vicious; dangerous."
      ],
      "id": "en-scathy-en-adj-sVrpgNkh",
      "links": [
        [
          "Mischievous",
          "mischievous"
        ],
        [
          "vicious",
          "vicious"
        ],
        [
          "dangerous",
          "dangerous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, dialect, archaic) Mischievous; vicious; dangerous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scathy"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "scathi"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English scathi",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*scaþiġ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *scaþiġ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "scathe",
        "3": "y",
        "id2": "adjectival"
      },
      "expansion": "scathe + -y",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English scathi, from Old English *scaþiġ, sċeaþiġ (“injurious”), equivalent to scathe + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more scathy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most scathy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scathy (comparative more scathy, superlative most scathy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English adjectives",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival)",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mischievous; vicious; dangerous."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Mischievous",
          "mischievous"
        ],
        [
          "vicious",
          "vicious"
        ],
        [
          "dangerous",
          "dangerous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, dialect, archaic) Mischievous; vicious; dangerous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scathy"
}

Download raw JSONL data for scathy meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (b81b832 and 633533e). 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.