"Whit" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Whits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Whit (plural Whits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "33 67",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
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        {
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Calendar",
          "orig": "en:Calendar",
          "parents": [
            "Timekeeping",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "Whit Monday"
        },
        {
          "word": "Whit Saturday"
        },
        {
          "word": "Whit Sunday"
        },
        {
          "word": "Whitsun"
        },
        {
          "word": "Whitsunday"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The season of Whitsuntide."
      ],
      "id": "en-Whit-en-noun-kpCq7ygn",
      "links": [
        [
          "Whitsuntide",
          "Whitsuntide"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whit"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of the surname of Dick Whittington, London mayor who funded the rebuilding of the prison.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Whit",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "the Whit"
      },
      "expansion": "the Whit",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English Thieves' Cant",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman:",
          "text": "A Bow Street Runner says \"I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 5, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Verso Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "One of the strong drinks brewed in the Whit, a place as noted for the variety of its potions as the irony of its expressions, was called 'South Sea'. The gin brewed in Newgate was […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s)."
      ],
      "id": "en-Whit-en-name-J40a1zS~",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(originally thieves' cant, now archaic or historical) Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whit"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Calendar"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Whit Monday"
    },
    {
      "word": "Whit Saturday"
    },
    {
      "word": "Whit Sunday"
    },
    {
      "word": "Whitsun"
    },
    {
      "word": "Whitsunday"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Whits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Whit (plural Whits)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The season of Whitsuntide."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Whitsuntide",
          "Whitsuntide"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whit"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Calendar"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of the surname of Dick Whittington, London mayor who funded the rebuilding of the prison.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Whit",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "the Whit"
      },
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      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English Thieves' Cant",
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        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman:",
          "text": "A Bow Street Runner says \"I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 5, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Verso Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "One of the strong drinks brewed in the Whit, a place as noted for the variety of its potions as the irony of its expressions, was called 'South Sea'. The gin brewed in Newgate was […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(originally thieves' cant, now archaic or historical) Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whit"
}