"skerrick" meaning in All languages combined

See skerrick on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-skerrick.ogg [Australia] Forms: skerricks [plural]
Etymology: Unknown. Originally used in British dialect. Etymology templates: {{unk|en}} Unknown Head templates: {{en-noun}} skerrick (plural skerricks)
  1. (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative. Tags: Australia, New-Zealand
    Sense id: en-skerrick-en-noun-oIQIbg~w Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, New Zealand English

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for skerrick meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Unknown",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Originally used in British dialect.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skerricks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "skerrick (plural skerricks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian 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": "New Zealand English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 117",
          "text": "When he reached this point in his madness, it disabled whatever skerrick of common sense he might have had even to save himself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April, Kennedy Warne, “Blue Haven”, in National Geographic, section 74",
          "text": "\"And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative."
      ],
      "id": "en-skerrick-en-noun-oIQIbg~w",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-skerrick.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-au-skerrick.ogg/En-au-skerrick.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-au-skerrick.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skerrick"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Unknown",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Originally used in British dialect.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skerricks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "skerrick (plural skerricks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with unknown etymologies",
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 117",
          "text": "When he reached this point in his madness, it disabled whatever skerrick of common sense he might have had even to save himself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April, Kennedy Warne, “Blue Haven”, in National Geographic, section 74",
          "text": "\"And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-skerrick.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-au-skerrick.ogg/En-au-skerrick.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-au-skerrick.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skerrick"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). 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.