"van een kale kip kun je niet plukken" meaning in Dutch

See van een kale kip kun je niet plukken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proverb

Etymology: Literally, “one cannot pluck a bare [i.e. featherless] chicken”. Etymology templates: {{m-g|one cannot pluck a bare 􂀿i.e. featherless􂁀 chicken}} “one cannot pluck a bare [i.e. featherless] chicken”, {{lit|one cannot pluck a bare 􂀿i.e. featherless􂁀 chicken}} Literally, “one cannot pluck a bare [i.e. featherless] chicken” Head templates: {{head|nl|proverb}} van een kale kip kun je niet plukken
  1. No money or goods can be gained from someone who is already destitute.
    Sense id: en-van_een_kale_kip_kun_je_niet_plukken-nl-proverb-zUr88dbT Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header, Dutch proverbs, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
     
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "one cannot pluck a bare 􂀿i.e. featherless􂁀 chicken"
      },
      "expansion": "“one cannot pluck a bare [i.e. featherless] chicken”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "one cannot pluck a bare 􂀿i.e. featherless􂁀 chicken"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “one cannot pluck a bare [i.e. featherless] chicken”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “one cannot pluck a bare [i.e. featherless] chicken”.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "van een kale kip kun je niet plukken",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dutch proverbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The bandits skipped the impoverished village, because its inhabitants had nothing left to give.",
          "text": "De rovers sloegen het arme dorp over, want van een kale kip kun je niet plukken.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "No money or goods can be gained from someone who is already destitute."
      ],
      "id": "en-van_een_kale_kip_kun_je_niet_plukken-nl-proverb-zUr88dbT",
      "links": [
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "goods",
          "goods"
        ],
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ],
        [
          "destitute",
          "destitute"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "van een kale kip kun je niet plukken"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "one cannot pluck a bare 􂀿i.e. featherless􂁀 chicken"
      },
      "expansion": "“one cannot pluck a bare [i.e. featherless] chicken”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "one cannot pluck a bare 􂀿i.e. featherless􂁀 chicken"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “one cannot pluck a bare [i.e. featherless] chicken”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “one cannot pluck a bare [i.e. featherless] chicken”.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "van een kale kip kun je niet plukken",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
        "Dutch lemmas",
        "Dutch multiword terms",
        "Dutch proverbs",
        "Dutch terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The bandits skipped the impoverished village, because its inhabitants had nothing left to give.",
          "text": "De rovers sloegen het arme dorp over, want van een kale kip kun je niet plukken.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "No money or goods can be gained from someone who is already destitute."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "goods",
          "goods"
        ],
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ],
        [
          "destitute",
          "destitute"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "van een kale kip kun je niet plukken"
}

Download raw JSONL data for van een kale kip kun je niet plukken meaning in Dutch (1.3kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.