See Larry Dooley in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "After Larry Dooley, an otherwise forgotten early boxer, or possibly the better remembered Larry Foley. Popularised by cricket commentator Richie Benaud when describing aggressive batsmen.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "larry-dooley",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "Larry Dooley (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Australian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
41,
53
]
],
"ref": "1972, Ken Clift, The Saga of a Sig: The Wartime Memories of Six Years Service in the Second A.I.F., page 150:",
"text": "Meggsie and his crew gave the Japs some ‘Larry Dooley’ with a group of Brigade sigs who, galloping back and forth from the armourer′s position carried the bombs after they had been checked.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
163,
175
]
],
"ref": "2001, Alison Lester, The Snow Pony, page 128:",
"text": "She could hear her now, using her grannie′s voice, “You lose ninety per cent of your body heat through your head, young lady, so get that hat on before I give you Larry Dooley.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A beating, a hiding, a ticking-off; aggro."
],
"id": "en-Larry_Dooley-en-noun-xGv2Zdsm",
"links": [
[
"beating",
"beating"
],
[
"hiding",
"hiding"
],
[
"ticking-off",
"ticking-off"
],
[
"aggro",
"aggro"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, slang) A beating, a hiding, a ticking-off; aggro."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Australian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sports",
"orig": "en:Sports",
"parents": [
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
63,
75
]
],
"text": "As they came down the home straight, the jockey gave his horse Larry Dooley.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
143,
155
]
],
"ref": "2006, Andrew Symonds, Steven Gray, Roy: Going for Broke, page 135:",
"text": "As Ian Harvey came in, my carefully considered words of advice were something like: ‘Have a look, get settled and then let′s give ′em a bit of Larry Dooley!’",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Extra effort; extra impetus; enthusiastic aggression."
],
"id": "en-Larry_Dooley-en-noun-H5DmJRBo",
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"effort",
"effort"
],
[
"impetus",
"impetus"
]
],
"qualifier": "sports or other competitive activity",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, slang, colloquial, sports or other competitive activity) Extra effort; extra impetus; enthusiastic aggression."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"colloquial",
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Australian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "26 27 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 25 52",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 23 55",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "27 26 47",
"word": "play Larry Dooley"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
91,
103
]
],
"ref": "1978, Hal Porter, Mary Lord, Hal Porter, Portable Australian Authors, published 1980, page 316:",
"text": "“Don't be euphemistic. I′m getting drunk. I intend to get drunker. My sciatica′s giving me Larry Dooley. From now on I′ll pour my own, thank you very much.″",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
97,
109
]
],
"ref": "1988, Alexandra Towle, Mothers: A Celebration in Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of Mothers and Motherhood, page 178:",
"text": "And, taking off her shoes new filmed with the dust of roads and adventure, “My corn is giving me Larry Dooley!”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Pain, gyp."
],
"id": "en-Larry_Dooley-en-noun-mLV83Aer",
"links": [
[
"Pain",
"pain"
],
[
"gyp",
"gyp"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, slang) Pain, gyp."
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "27 26 47",
"word": "give it some welly"
}
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-Larry Dooley.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/En-au-Larry_Dooley.ogg/En-au-Larry_Dooley.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/En-au-Larry_Dooley.ogg"
}
],
"word": "Larry Dooley"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "play Larry Dooley"
}
],
"etymology_text": "After Larry Dooley, an otherwise forgotten early boxer, or possibly the better remembered Larry Foley. Popularised by cricket commentator Richie Benaud when describing aggressive batsmen.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "larry-dooley",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "Larry Dooley (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "give it some welly"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
41,
53
]
],
"ref": "1972, Ken Clift, The Saga of a Sig: The Wartime Memories of Six Years Service in the Second A.I.F., page 150:",
"text": "Meggsie and his crew gave the Japs some ‘Larry Dooley’ with a group of Brigade sigs who, galloping back and forth from the armourer′s position carried the bombs after they had been checked.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
163,
175
]
],
"ref": "2001, Alison Lester, The Snow Pony, page 128:",
"text": "She could hear her now, using her grannie′s voice, “You lose ninety per cent of your body heat through your head, young lady, so get that hat on before I give you Larry Dooley.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A beating, a hiding, a ticking-off; aggro."
],
"links": [
[
"beating",
"beating"
],
[
"hiding",
"hiding"
],
[
"ticking-off",
"ticking-off"
],
[
"aggro",
"aggro"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, slang) A beating, a hiding, a ticking-off; aggro."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English colloquialisms",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Sports"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
63,
75
]
],
"text": "As they came down the home straight, the jockey gave his horse Larry Dooley.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
143,
155
]
],
"ref": "2006, Andrew Symonds, Steven Gray, Roy: Going for Broke, page 135:",
"text": "As Ian Harvey came in, my carefully considered words of advice were something like: ‘Have a look, get settled and then let′s give ′em a bit of Larry Dooley!’",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Extra effort; extra impetus; enthusiastic aggression."
],
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"effort",
"effort"
],
[
"impetus",
"impetus"
]
],
"qualifier": "sports or other competitive activity",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, slang, colloquial, sports or other competitive activity) Extra effort; extra impetus; enthusiastic aggression."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"colloquial",
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
91,
103
]
],
"ref": "1978, Hal Porter, Mary Lord, Hal Porter, Portable Australian Authors, published 1980, page 316:",
"text": "“Don't be euphemistic. I′m getting drunk. I intend to get drunker. My sciatica′s giving me Larry Dooley. From now on I′ll pour my own, thank you very much.″",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
97,
109
]
],
"ref": "1988, Alexandra Towle, Mothers: A Celebration in Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of Mothers and Motherhood, page 178:",
"text": "And, taking off her shoes new filmed with the dust of roads and adventure, “My corn is giving me Larry Dooley!”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Pain, gyp."
],
"links": [
[
"Pain",
"pain"
],
[
"gyp",
"gyp"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, slang) Pain, gyp."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-Larry Dooley.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/En-au-Larry_Dooley.ogg/En-au-Larry_Dooley.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/En-au-Larry_Dooley.ogg"
}
],
"word": "Larry Dooley"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Larry Dooley meaning in English (4.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (74c5344 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.