See Bickerstaffian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "Bickerstaff", "3": "ian" }, "expansion": "Bickerstaff + -ian", "name": "suf" } ], "etymology_text": "Bickerstaff + -ian", "forms": [ { "form": "more Bickerstaffian", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most Bickerstaffian", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Bickerstaffian (comparative more Bickerstaffian, superlative most Bickerstaffian)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "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 terms suffixed with -ian", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "Of or relating to Isaac Bickerstaff, a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then-famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge." ], "id": "en-Bickerstaffian-en-adj-9gzBDjbA" } ], "word": "Bickerstaffian" }
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "Bickerstaff", "3": "ian" }, "expansion": "Bickerstaff + -ian", "name": "suf" } ], "etymology_text": "Bickerstaff + -ian", "forms": [ { "form": "more Bickerstaffian", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most Bickerstaffian", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Bickerstaffian (comparative more Bickerstaffian, superlative most Bickerstaffian)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English eponyms", "English lemmas", "English terms suffixed with -ian", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "Of or relating to Isaac Bickerstaff, a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then-famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge." ] } ], "word": "Bickerstaffian" }
Download raw JSONL data for Bickerstaffian meaning in English (0.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-02 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (db8a5a5 and fb63907). 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.