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circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch." ], "topics": [ "business", "manufacturing", "sewing", "textiles" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "1 1 22 23 20 34 1", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "People", "orig": "en:People", "parents": [ "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "It is hard to watch the management for very long and not conclude that the place is run by a bunch of yo-yos.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1985, Sting & Mark Knopfler (lyrics and music), “Money for Nothing”, in Brothers in Arms, performed by Dire Straits", "text": "Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1991, Stephen King, Needful Things", "text": "Henry glanced past him at the few other customers currently in attendance. \"Hey! Any of you yo-yos headed up Castle Hill?\"", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A foolish, annoying or incompetent person." ], "id": "en-yo-yo-en-noun-92V6T43H", "links": [ [ "foolish", "foolish" ], [ "annoying", "annoying" ], [ "incompetent", "incompetent" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) A foolish, annoying or incompetent person." ], "tags": [ "informal" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈjəʊ.jəʊ/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈjoʊ.joʊ/", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "rhymes": "(UK) -əʊjəʊ" }, { "rhymes": "(US) -oʊjoʊ" }, { "audio": "en-us-yo-yo.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/En-us-yo-yo.ogg/En-us-yo-yo.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/En-us-yo-yo.ogg", "tags": [ "US" ], "text": "Audio (US)" } ], "word": "yo-yo" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ilo", "3": "yóyo" }, "expansion": "Ilocano yóyo", "name": "bor" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "phi" }, "expansion": "Philippine", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "Formerly a trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo, or another Philippine cognate.", "forms": [ { "form": "yo-yos", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "yo-yoing", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "yo-yoed", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "yo-yoed", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "yo-yo (third-person singular simple present yo-yos, present participle yo-yoing, simple past and past participle yo-yoed)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "16 16 11 22 18 2 15", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "15 15 15 19 16 2 18", "kind": "other", "name": "English genericized trademarks", "parents": [ "Genericized trademarks", "Terms by etymology", "Trademarks", "Terms by usage" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "14 14 14 20 17 3 18", "kind": "other", "name": "English reduplicated coordinated pairs", "parents": [ "Reduplicated coordinated pairs", "Coordinated pairs", "Reduplications", "Terms by etymology" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1990, The Economist, volume 316, page 93", "text": "The yo-yoing stockmarket whizzed back up by around a quarter and then started to fall again.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "To vacillate; to move up and down." ], "id": "en-yo-yo-en-verb-92hXiznF", "links": [ [ "vacillate", "vacillate" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To vacillate; to move up and down." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈjəʊ.jəʊ/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈjoʊ.joʊ/", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "rhymes": "(UK) -əʊjəʊ" }, { "rhymes": "(US) -oʊjoʊ" }, { "audio": "en-us-yo-yo.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/En-us-yo-yo.ogg/En-us-yo-yo.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/En-us-yo-yo.ogg", "tags": [ "US" ], "text": "Audio (US)" } ], "word": "yo-yo" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "it", "2": "en", "3": "yo-yo" }, "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English yo-yo", "name": "ubor" } ], "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English yo-yo.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "m", "2": "#", "nolinkhead": "1" }, "expansion": "yo-yo m (invariable)", "name": "it-noun" } ], "lang": "Italian", "lang_code": "it", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "it", "name": "Games", "orig": "it:Games", "parents": [ "Recreation", "Human activity", "Human behaviour", "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "yo-yo" ], "id": "en-yo-yo-it-noun-j6Z2WHU-", "links": [ [ "games", "game#Noun" ], [ "yo-yo", "yo-yo#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(games) yo-yo" ], "tags": [ "invariable", "masculine" ], "topics": [ "games" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/joˈjɔ/" }, { "ipa": "/jɔˈjɔ/" }, { "rhymes": "-ɔ" } ], "word": "yo-yo" }
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Any of you yo-yos headed up Castle Hill?\"", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A foolish, annoying or incompetent person." ], "links": [ [ "foolish", "foolish" ], [ "annoying", "annoying" ], [ "incompetent", "incompetent" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) A foolish, annoying or incompetent person." ], "tags": [ "informal" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈjəʊ.jəʊ/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈjoʊ.joʊ/", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "rhymes": "(UK) -əʊjəʊ" }, { "rhymes": "(US) -oʊjoʊ" }, { "audio": "en-us-yo-yo.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/En-us-yo-yo.ogg/En-us-yo-yo.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/En-us-yo-yo.ogg", "tags": [ "US" ], "text": "Audio (US)" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "toy", "word": "jojo" }, { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "yūyū", "sense": "toy", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "يُويُو" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", 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