See wide boy on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Related to wide awake, i.e. sharp-witted, open-eyed, with wide open eyes.", "forms": [ { "form": "wide boys", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "wide boy (plural wide boys)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "British English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Commonwealth 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": "Irish English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Male people", "orig": "en:Male people", "parents": [ "Male", "People", "Gender", "Human", "Biology", "Psychology", "Sociology", "All topics", "Sciences", "Social sciences", "Fundamental", "Society" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Personality", "orig": "en:Personality", "parents": [ "Mind", "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1992 July 21, Edwina Currie, Diary:", "text": "Much amusement at Westminster about David Mellor, a wide boy if ever there was one. Someone tapped his girlfriend's phone and sold the tape to The People. Very funny stuff—all about how knackered he was.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing." ], "id": "en-wide_boy-en-noun-2olYXzBB", "links": [ [ "wits", "wits" ], [ "wheeling and dealing", "wheel and deal" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "geezer" }, { "word": "spiv" } ], "tags": [ "Commonwealth", "Ireland", "UK", "slang" ] } ], "word": "wide boy" }
{ "etymology_text": "Related to wide awake, i.e. sharp-witted, open-eyed, with wide open eyes.", "forms": [ { "form": "wide boys", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "wide boy (plural wide boys)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "Commonwealth English", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English slang", "English terms with quotations", "Irish English", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Male people", "en:Personality" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1992 July 21, Edwina Currie, Diary:", "text": "Much amusement at Westminster about David Mellor, a wide boy if ever there was one. Someone tapped his girlfriend's phone and sold the tape to The People. Very funny stuff—all about how knackered he was.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing." ], "links": [ [ "wits", "wits" ], [ "wheeling and dealing", "wheel and deal" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing." ], "tags": [ "Commonwealth", "Ireland", "UK", "slang" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "geezer" }, { "word": "spiv" } ], "word": "wide boy" }
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