See Show Me State in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"I'm from Missouri, you'll have to show me",
"I'm from Missouri, you'll have to show me#English"
]
],
"etymology_text": "From the saying I'm from Missouri, you'll have to show me, which alludes to the Missourian reputation for skepticism.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "the Show Me State",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Show Me State",
"the": "1"
},
"expansion": "the Show Me State",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Missouri, USA",
"orig": "en:Missouri, USA",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Official nicknames for states of the United States",
"orig": "en:Official nicknames for states of the United States",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in the United States",
"orig": "en:Places in the United States",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "States of the United States",
"orig": "en:States of the United States",
"parents": [
"States",
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Official nickname for Missouri: a state of the United States."
],
"id": "en-Show_Me_State-en-name-vXCBrlJW",
"links": [
[
"Missouri",
"Missouri#English"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Show Me State"
}
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"I'm from Missouri, you'll have to show me",
"I'm from Missouri, you'll have to show me#English"
]
],
"etymology_text": "From the saying I'm from Missouri, you'll have to show me, which alludes to the Missourian reputation for skepticism.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "the Show Me State",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Show Me State",
"the": "1"
},
"expansion": "the Show Me State",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Missouri, USA",
"en:Official nicknames for states of the United States",
"en:Places in the United States",
"en:States of the United States"
],
"glosses": [
"Official nickname for Missouri: a state of the United States."
],
"links": [
[
"Missouri",
"Missouri#English"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Show Me State"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Show Me State meaning in English (1.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-10-01 using wiktextract (19f9a30 and 6f96ddf). 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.