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"ref": "1996, “Doin' It”, in Mr. Smith, performed by LL Cool J",
"text": "I guarantee, shorty, it's real, baby, stick it out / [...] / You talk a good one, shorty, now you're makin' me sweat",
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"ref": "1999, Vibe",
"text": "But seeing my boy on the cover of your magazine with three fine shorties made me think twice about the assumptions I've made.",
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"ref": "2006, Karen E. Quinones Miller, Uptown Dreams, Simon and Schuster, page 38",
"text": "“Yo, man,” Vincent looked up at Sharif. “How is it that you always have the fine shorties hanging out at your crib?”",
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"ref": "2008, “Just Dance”, in The Fame, performed by Lady Gaga ft. Colby O'Donis",
"text": "Shawty I can see that you got so much energy, / The way you twirling up them hips round and round",
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"ref": "2015, Ashon Thadon, Unpunished: some deeds go that way, BookRix",
"text": "\"It wasn't that fine ass shorty I saw in the car earlier?\" Travis inquired.",
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"ref": "2003, Ebony, page 34",
"text": "These are the things that separate a date from a fiancee, a shorty from a wife, a one-night stand from a lifetime commitment.",
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"ref": "2011, A.D. King, \"Nola's Island\": Vacation From Degradation, Trafford Publishing, page 47",
"text": "Demarco said pulling down his cap “Yeah, that's what I be hearing, my shorty told me how Shelly be bragging about the time ya'll had.”",
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"ref": "2011, “Mistletoe”, in Under the Mistletoe, performed by Justin Bieber",
"text": "I should be playin' in the winter snow, but I'ma be under the mistletoe / With you, shawty with you",
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"ref": "2012, Edd Mcnair, Turning Point, Urban Books, page 42",
"text": "My shorty called my baby moms, I'm in some shit, and all my real gear at shorty crib.",
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"ref": "2013, Jah King Entertainment, Time 2 Set It Off!: downloadable copy, Jah King Inc., page 90",
"text": "It was my birthday weekend, and one of my shorties decided she wanted to take a playa to Amsterdam to celebrate, we took a sightseeing tour bus and we saw everything there was to see.",
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"ref": "2014, Antonio Harriston, Lust, Money, Envy, iUniverse, page 169",
"text": "I don't give a fuck, what he wants from me, I'll give him anything to get my shorty back, I swear, he better not have hurt or touched my shorty, or I'm a kill 'em when I see'em.",
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"text": "Bell: Savino didn't tip you off to that bitch?\nWee-Bey: Pshh, wasn't no time for that. He get up out the car, we see him go up the block like we said, right? Pshh, after that, he outa sight, we bring it home like we planned, baby.\nBell: Well, shorty was a cop.",
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"ref": "2023 February 5, Za Morant (@APotOfGold_), Twitter",
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"ref": "2023 February 1, Hoodville (@Hoodville_), Twitter",
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"ref": "2023 February 5, The Sound Hashira (@chillixci), Twitter",
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"ref": "2023 February 1, Chronic E (@therealchronice), Twitter",
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"ref": "2023 January 29, @Squid_wurdz on IG (@squid_wurdz), Twitter",
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"An attractive young female, especially one who is sexually available."
],
"qualifier": "chiefly African-American Vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) An attractive young female, especially one who is sexually available."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"African-American Vernacular English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003, Ebony, page 34",
"text": "These are the things that separate a date from a fiancee, a shorty from a wife, a one-night stand from a lifetime commitment.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, A.D. King, \"Nola's Island\": Vacation From Degradation, Trafford Publishing, page 47",
"text": "Demarco said pulling down his cap “Yeah, that's what I be hearing, my shorty told me how Shelly be bragging about the time ya'll had.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, “Mistletoe”, in Under the Mistletoe, performed by Justin Bieber",
"text": "I should be playin' in the winter snow, but I'ma be under the mistletoe / With you, shawty with you",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Edd Mcnair, Turning Point, Urban Books, page 42",
"text": "My shorty called my baby moms, I'm in some shit, and all my real gear at shorty crib.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Jah King Entertainment, Time 2 Set It Off!: downloadable copy, Jah King Inc., page 90",
"text": "It was my birthday weekend, and one of my shorties decided she wanted to take a playa to Amsterdam to celebrate, we took a sightseeing tour bus and we saw everything there was to see.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Antonio Harriston, Lust, Money, Envy, iUniverse, page 169",
"text": "I don't give a fuck, what he wants from me, I'll give him anything to get my shorty back, I swear, he better not have hurt or touched my shorty, or I'm a kill 'em when I see'em.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A girlfriend."
],
"qualifier": "chiefly African-American Vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A girlfriend."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃɔː.ti/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃoɹ.ti/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃoː.ti/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)ti"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-shorty.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/En-au-shorty.ogg/En-au-shorty.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/En-au-shorty.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shortie"
},
{
"topics": [
"hip-hop",
"dancing",
"sports",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle"
],
"word": "shawty"
}
],
"word": "shorty"
}
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"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English pronouns",
"English terms suffixed with -y",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)ti",
"Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)ti/2 syllables",
"en:People"
],
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"2": "short",
"3": "y"
},
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"name": "suffix"
}
],
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{
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"1": "en",
"10": "",
"11": "",
"12": "",
"13": "",
"14": "",
"15": "",
"16": "",
"17": "",
"18": "",
"19": "",
"2": "pronoun",
"20": "",
"3": "third-person singular, feminine, nominative or objective case",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"head": ""
},
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"name": "head"
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},
"expansion": "shorty (third-person singular, feminine, nominative or objective case)",
"name": "en-pron"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "pron",
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{
"categories": [
"African-American Vernacular English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002 August 18, David Simon, Ed Burns, “The Hunt” (15:40 from the start), in The Wire, season 1, episode 11, spoken by Stringer Bell (Idris Elba), spoken by Wee-Bey Brice (Hassan Johnson)",
"text": "Bell: Savino didn't tip you off to that bitch?\nWee-Bey: Pshh, wasn't no time for that. He get up out the car, we see him go up the block like we said, right? Pshh, after that, he outa sight, we bring it home like we planned, baby.\nBell: Well, shorty was a cop.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 February 5, Za Morant (@APotOfGold_), Twitter",
"text": "Shorty really killed this 😭",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 February 1, Hoodville (@Hoodville_), Twitter",
"text": "I asked shorty for her name and she said “earn it”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 February 5, The Sound Hashira (@chillixci), Twitter",
"text": "Shorty said",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 February 1, Chronic E (@therealchronice), Twitter",
"text": "shorty concussed and she said not my problem 😭",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 January 29, @Squid_wurdz on IG (@squid_wurdz), Twitter",
"text": "Me tryna show shorty I’m just as useful as that toy",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"she or her, especially of a younger woman"
],
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[
"she",
"she#English"
],
[
"her",
"her#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(African-American Vernacular, slang) she or her, especially of a younger woman"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"objective",
"singular",
"slang",
"third-person"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈʃɔː.ti/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃoɹ.ti/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃoː.ti/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)ti"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-shorty.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/En-au-shorty.ogg/En-au-shorty.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/En-au-shorty.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
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{
"word": "shortie"
},
{
"topics": [
"hip-hop",
"dancing",
"sports",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle"
],
"word": "shawty"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "drebosǎk",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дребосък"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cartuccia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mezza cartuccia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kurdupel"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "knypek"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "baixinho"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "meia-leca"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "baixote"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "minorca"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural",
"singular"
],
"word": "caga-tacos"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "korotýš",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "короты́ш"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "korotýška",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "короты́шка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nedoróstok",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "недоро́сток"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "malomérok",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "маломе́рок"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nedomérok",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "недоме́рок"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "korotún",
"sense": "a short person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "короту́н"
}
],
"word": "shorty"
}
{
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{
"form": "shortys",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "shorty m (plural shortys)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French 2-syllable words",
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"fr:Underwear"
],
"glosses": [
"boyshorts, French knickers"
],
"links": [
[
"boyshorts",
"boyshorts"
],
[
"French knickers",
"French knickers"
]
],
"qualifier": "pair of",
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"(pair of) boyshorts, French knickers"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃɔʁ.ti/"
}
],
"word": "shorty"
}
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