"yokibus" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "-ibus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin -ibus",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From yoke + jocular Latin -ibus. Compare thingumajig.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "!"
      },
      "expansion": "yokibus (plural not attested)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English nouns with unattested plurals",
          "parents": [
            "Nouns with unattested plurals",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Jack McQuillan, Dáil Éireann debates, Vol.189 no.1 p.17 cc.16-17 9 May 1961",
          "text": "With your permission, Sir, I propose to have this “yokibus” [\"a badge bearing caricatures and words of a ludicrously stage-Irish nature\"] made available in the Library so every Deputy will have an opportunity of seeing the way this country is being caricatured by the Government."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994 [set in 1929], Hugh Leonard, \"Senna For Sonny\", Plays International, Vol.10 p.38",
          "text": "O'HORAN: (Taking a rise:) You had invented a yokibus, your letter said, that was on a par with p'ison gas."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig."
      ],
      "id": "en-yokibus-en-noun-Cjc1q-ZK",
      "links": [
        [
          "miscellaneous",
          "miscellaneous"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ],
        [
          "whimsical",
          "whimsical"
        ],
        [
          "contraption",
          "contraption"
        ],
        [
          "thingamajig",
          "thingamajig"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, slang, dated) A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "dated",
        "no-plural",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yokibus"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "-ibus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin -ibus",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From yoke + jocular Latin -ibus. Compare thingumajig.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "!"
      },
      "expansion": "yokibus (plural not attested)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unattested plurals",
        "English slang",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "Irish English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Jack McQuillan, Dáil Éireann debates, Vol.189 no.1 p.17 cc.16-17 9 May 1961",
          "text": "With your permission, Sir, I propose to have this “yokibus” [\"a badge bearing caricatures and words of a ludicrously stage-Irish nature\"] made available in the Library so every Deputy will have an opportunity of seeing the way this country is being caricatured by the Government."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994 [set in 1929], Hugh Leonard, \"Senna For Sonny\", Plays International, Vol.10 p.38",
          "text": "O'HORAN: (Taking a rise:) You had invented a yokibus, your letter said, that was on a par with p'ison gas."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "miscellaneous",
          "miscellaneous"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ],
        [
          "whimsical",
          "whimsical"
        ],
        [
          "contraption",
          "contraption"
        ],
        [
          "thingamajig",
          "thingamajig"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, slang, dated) A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig."
      ],
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        "Ireland",
        "dated",
        "no-plural",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yokibus"
}