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"name": "back-formation"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A back-formation from chemise (mistaken for a plural).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shimmies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shimmying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shimmied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shimmied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Dance"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 13, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan",
"text": "She wondered would he think her awful, and try to get fresh if she shimmied. Fellows often did. But he was so cute. And a girl had to something about that, and if she didn't shimmy, she might do something worse.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately)."
],
"links": [
[
"dance",
"dance#Noun"
],
[
"shimmy",
"#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately)."
],
"topics": [
"dance",
"dancing",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He shimmied up the flagpole.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The static made her dress shimmy up her leg.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs)."
],
"links": [
[
"climb",
"climb"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel."
],
"links": [
[
"vibrate",
"vibrate"
],
[
"abnormally",
"abnormally"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy."
],
"links": [
[
"shake",
"shake"
],
[
"body",
"body"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Video games"
],
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{
"ref": "2009, Allison Schubert, Lunabean.com's Videogame Guides of 2008: Adventure 3-Pack",
"text": "Jump up to the ledge on your right and shimmy around the corner.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Prima Development, The Big PlayStation Book",
"text": "Climb on top of the room and drop down to shimmy along its back ledge.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall."
],
"links": [
[
"video game",
"video game"
],
[
"strafing",
"strafe"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"topics": [
"video-games"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃɪ.mi/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmi"
},
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shimmy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shimmy.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "climb a pole",
"word": "shinny"
},
{
"sense": "climb a pole",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"UK"
],
"word": "shin"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually",
"word": "grimper"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vibriram",
"sense": "to vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel",
"word": "вибрирам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel",
"word": "täristä"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"shimmy"
],
"word": "shimmy"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "shimmys",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "shimmy m (plural shimmys)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
"French nouns with red links in their headword lines"
],
"glosses": [
"shimmy (1920s dance)"
],
"links": [
[
"shimmy",
"shimmy#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "shimmy"
}
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