"Huxtable" meaning in English

See Huxtable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈhʌkstəbəl/ Forms: Huxtables [plural]
Etymology: Habitational surname typical of Devon, from Old English hoc (“hook or spur of land”) + stapol (“post”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ang|hoc||hook or spur of land}} Old English hoc (“hook or spur of land”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|Huxtables}} Huxtable (plural Huxtables)
  1. A surname from Old English, now most associated with the upper middle class black family on The Cosby Show. Wikipedia link: Huxtable
    Sense id: en-Huxtable-en-name-y0KjdOkA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English surnames, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hoc",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hook or spur of land"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hoc (“hook or spur of land”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Habitational surname typical of Devon, from Old English hoc (“hook or spur of land”) + stapol (“post”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Huxtables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Huxtables"
      },
      "expansion": "Huxtable (plural Huxtables)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "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 surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, \"Refugees\", The Wire, 00:36:47",
          "text": "Pearson: Fuckin' Huxtables an' shit, man."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname from Old English, now most associated with the upper middle class black family on The Cosby Show."
      ],
      "id": "en-Huxtable-en-name-y0KjdOkA",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ],
        [
          "now",
          "now"
        ],
        [
          "most",
          "most"
        ],
        [
          "associated",
          "associated"
        ],
        [
          "upper middle class",
          "upper middle class"
        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ],
        [
          "family",
          "family"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Huxtable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhʌkstəbəl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Huxtable"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hoc",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hook or spur of land"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hoc (“hook or spur of land”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Habitational surname typical of Devon, from Old English hoc (“hook or spur of land”) + stapol (“post”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Huxtables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Huxtables"
      },
      "expansion": "Huxtable (plural Huxtables)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English surnames",
        "English surnames from Old English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, \"Refugees\", The Wire, 00:36:47",
          "text": "Pearson: Fuckin' Huxtables an' shit, man."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname from Old English, now most associated with the upper middle class black family on The Cosby Show."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ],
        [
          "now",
          "now"
        ],
        [
          "most",
          "most"
        ],
        [
          "associated",
          "associated"
        ],
        [
          "upper middle class",
          "upper middle class"
        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ],
        [
          "family",
          "family"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Huxtable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhʌkstəbəl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Huxtable"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Huxtable meaning in English (1.3kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (db0bec0 and 633533e). 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.