"tonton makout" meaning in All languages combined

See tonton makout on Wiktionary

Noun [Haitian Creole]

IPA: /tɔ̃tɔ̃ makut/
Etymology: tonton (“uncle”) + makout (“gunnysack”) Etymology templates: {{com|ht|tonton|makout|t1=uncle|t2=gunnysack}} tonton (“uncle”) + makout (“gunnysack”) Head templates: {{head|ht|noun}} tonton makout
  1. bogeyman Categories (topical): Characters from folklore
    Sense id: en-tonton_makout-ht-noun-u3M4bjYY Disambiguation of Characters from folklore: 88 12
  2. Tonton Macoute (member of a former special unit within the Haitian paramilitary force) Categories (topical): Occupations
    Sense id: en-tonton_makout-ht-noun-8gnGZg0l Disambiguation of Occupations: 32 68 Categories (other): Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header: 7 93

Download JSON data for tonton makout meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ht",
        "2": "tonton",
        "3": "makout",
        "t1": "uncle",
        "t2": "gunnysack"
      },
      "expansion": "tonton (“uncle”) + makout (“gunnysack”)",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "tonton (“uncle”) + makout (“gunnysack”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ht",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "tonton makout",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Haitian Creole",
  "lang_code": "ht",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ht",
          "name": "Characters from folklore",
          "orig": "ht:Characters from folklore",
          "parents": [
            "Fictional characters",
            "Folklore",
            "Fiction",
            "Culture",
            "Artistic works",
            "Society",
            "Art",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bogeyman"
      ],
      "id": "en-tonton_makout-ht-noun-u3M4bjYY",
      "links": [
        [
          "bogeyman",
          "bogeyman"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ht",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "ht:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tonton Macoute (member of a former special unit within the Haitian paramilitary force)"
      ],
      "id": "en-tonton_makout-ht-noun-8gnGZg0l"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɔ̃tɔ̃ makut/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tonton makout"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Haitian Creole compound terms",
    "Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header",
    "Haitian Creole lemmas",
    "Haitian Creole multiword terms",
    "Haitian Creole nouns",
    "Haitian Creole terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "ht:Characters from folklore",
    "ht:Occupations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ht",
        "2": "tonton",
        "3": "makout",
        "t1": "uncle",
        "t2": "gunnysack"
      },
      "expansion": "tonton (“uncle”) + makout (“gunnysack”)",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "tonton (“uncle”) + makout (“gunnysack”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ht",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "tonton makout",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Haitian Creole",
  "lang_code": "ht",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bogeyman"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bogeyman",
          "bogeyman"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Tonton Macoute (member of a former special unit within the Haitian paramilitary force)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɔ̃tɔ̃ makut/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tonton makout"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). 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.