"TBH" meaning in English

See TBH in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} TBH
  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of to be honest. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: to be honest Synonyms: tbh
    Sense id: en-TBH-en-phrase-faORbHqa Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37
  2. (business) Initialism of to be hired. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: to be hired Categories (topical): Business
    Sense id: en-TBH-en-phrase-4a1YtaVp Topics: business

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for TBH meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "TBH",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "to be honest"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991 June 17, Bill Biesty, “Re: Stop silliness about justification for vegetarianism”, in rec.food.veg (Usenet), retrieved 2016-07-04, message-ID <1991Jun17.211640.29488@ide.com>",
          "text": "TBH (To be honest), I skip a lot of it too. But did read it for a while.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of to be honest."
      ],
      "id": "en-TBH-en-phrase-faORbHqa",
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "text messaging",
          "text messaging"
        ],
        [
          "to be honest",
          "to be honest#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of to be honest."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "87 13",
          "word": "tbh"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "to be hired"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Business",
          "orig": "en:Business",
          "parents": [
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of to be hired."
      ],
      "id": "en-TBH-en-phrase-4a1YtaVp",
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "hired",
          "hired#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(business) Initialism of to be hired."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "TBH"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English phrases"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "TBH",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "to be honest"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "English internet slang",
        "English links with redundant wikilinks",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English text messaging slang"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991 June 17, Bill Biesty, “Re: Stop silliness about justification for vegetarianism”, in rec.food.veg (Usenet), retrieved 2016-07-04, message-ID <1991Jun17.211640.29488@ide.com>",
          "text": "TBH (To be honest), I skip a lot of it too. But did read it for a while.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of to be honest."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "text messaging",
          "text messaging"
        ],
        [
          "to be honest",
          "to be honest#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of to be honest."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "to be hired"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "en:Business"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of to be hired."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "hired",
          "hired#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(business) Initialism of to be hired."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tbh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "TBH"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). 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.