"screaming abdabs" meaning in All languages combined

See screaming abdabs on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} screaming abdabs pl (plural only)
  1. (British, slang) A state of extreme nervousness. Tags: British, plural, plural-only, slang Synonyms: screaming habdabs

Alternative forms

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "screaming abdabs pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "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 pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, page 34:",
          "text": "...not noticing the sud smells anymore or belts over my head that gave me the screaming ab-dabs when I first came in the factory at fifteen...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1971, New Scientist, page 80, by the EBSCO Publishing Firm,\nMeanwhile, down the road a piece, another British firm has had an attack of the abdabs."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Anthony Burgess, The Pianoplayers, page 201:",
          "text": "... Robert played all the time on his dummy keyboard and it drove Edna near mad, gave her the screaming abdabs as she put it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Marian Babson, The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog:",
          "text": "‘This place doesn't ‘aif give me the screaming ‘abdabs.’ ‘And how!’ I agreed. All those small creatures that had once vibrated with life, now frozen ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic:",
          "text": "It's a nice night, and I’da darned sight rather take a walk out than see you work yourself into a fit of the screaming abdabs. I don't blame you, ...",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A state of extreme nervousness."
      ],
      "id": "en-screaming_abdabs-en-noun-QPCildiZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "nervousness",
          "nervousness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, slang) A state of extreme nervousness."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "screaming habdabs"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "screaming abdabs"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "screaming abdabs pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, page 34:",
          "text": "...not noticing the sud smells anymore or belts over my head that gave me the screaming ab-dabs when I first came in the factory at fifteen...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1971, New Scientist, page 80, by the EBSCO Publishing Firm,\nMeanwhile, down the road a piece, another British firm has had an attack of the abdabs."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Anthony Burgess, The Pianoplayers, page 201:",
          "text": "... Robert played all the time on his dummy keyboard and it drove Edna near mad, gave her the screaming abdabs as she put it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Marian Babson, The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog:",
          "text": "‘This place doesn't ‘aif give me the screaming ‘abdabs.’ ‘And how!’ I agreed. All those small creatures that had once vibrated with life, now frozen ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic:",
          "text": "It's a nice night, and I’da darned sight rather take a walk out than see you work yourself into a fit of the screaming abdabs. I don't blame you, ...",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A state of extreme nervousness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nervousness",
          "nervousness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, slang) A state of extreme nervousness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "screaming habdabs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "screaming abdabs"
}

Download raw JSONL data for screaming abdabs meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.