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{ "etymology_text": "Traced back to shanks-nag, 1758; The expression -- believed to be Scottish in origin (i.e. shanks-naig 1774), refers to the use of shank to refer to the part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.", "forms": [ { "form": "shanks' nags", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "head": "shanks' nag" }, "expansion": "shanks' nag (plural shanks' nags)", "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" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Scottish English", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "derived": [ { "tags": [ "US" ], "word": "shanks' mare" }, { "tags": [ "Australia", "UK" ], "word": "shanks' pony" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1774, Robert Fergusson, Poems on Various Subjects", "text": "He took shanks-naig, but fient may care.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Transportation by foot. To \"take a shanks' nag\" means using one's own legs to walk." ], "id": "en-shanks'_nag-en-noun-3pkq9bL3", "links": [ [ "Transportation", "transportation" ], [ "foot", "foot" ], [ "legs", "legs" ], [ "walk", "walk" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic, Scotland, archaic) Transportation by foot. To \"take a shanks' nag\" means using one's own legs to walk." ], "related": [ { "tags": [ "verb" ], "word": "shank-nag" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "shank's nag" }, { "word": "shanks-naig" }, { "word": "shanks-nag" } ], "tags": [ "Scotland", "archaic", "idiomatic" ], "translations": [ { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "walking", "word": "十一路" }, { "code": "is", "english": "to take shanks' nag", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "walking", "word": "fara á tveimur jafnfljótum" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "walking", "word": "ganga" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "walking", "tags": [ "plural" ], "word": "apostlahästar" } ] } ], "word": "shanks' nag" }
{ "derived": [ { "tags": [ "US" ], "word": "shanks' mare" }, { "tags": [ "Australia", "UK" ], "word": "shanks' pony" } ], "etymology_text": "Traced back to shanks-nag, 1758; The expression -- believed to be Scottish in origin (i.e. shanks-naig 1774), refers to the use of shank to refer to the part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.", "forms": [ { "form": "shanks' nags", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "head": "shanks' nag" }, "expansion": "shanks' nag (plural shanks' nags)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "tags": [ "verb" ], "word": "shank-nag" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English idioms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with archaic senses", "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "Scottish English" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1774, Robert Fergusson, Poems on Various Subjects", "text": "He took shanks-naig, but fient may care.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Transportation by foot. To \"take a shanks' nag\" means using one's own legs to walk." ], "links": [ [ "Transportation", "transportation" ], [ "foot", "foot" ], [ "legs", "legs" ], [ "walk", "walk" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic, Scotland, archaic) Transportation by foot. To \"take a shanks' nag\" means using one's own legs to walk." ], "tags": [ "Scotland", "archaic", "idiomatic" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "shank's nag" }, { "word": "shanks-naig" }, { "word": "shanks-nag" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "walking", "word": "十一路" }, { "code": "is", "english": "to take shanks' nag", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "walking", "word": "fara á tveimur jafnfljótum" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "walking", "word": "ganga" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "walking", "tags": [ "plural" ], "word": "apostlahästar" } ], "word": "shanks' nag" }
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