"Whyos" meaning in English

See Whyos in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Whyo [singular]
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the gang's cry. Etymology templates: {{onomatopoeic|en}} Onomatopoeic Head templates: {{en-noun|p|sg=Whyo}} Whyos pl (normally plural, singular Whyo)
  1. (historical) A street gang of New York City during the mid to late 19th century. Tags: historical, plural, plural-normally

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Onomatopoeic",
      "name": "onomatopoeic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic, from the gang's cry.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Whyo",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p",
        "sg": "Whyo"
      },
      "expansion": "Whyos pl (normally plural, singular Whyo)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "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 onomatopoeias",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A street gang of New York City during the mid to late 19th century."
      ],
      "id": "en-Whyos-en-noun-VoHQweXM",
      "links": [
        [
          "street",
          "street"
        ],
        [
          "gang",
          "gang"
        ],
        [
          "New York City",
          "New York City"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A street gang of New York City during the mid to late 19th century."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "plural",
        "plural-normally"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whyos"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Onomatopoeic",
      "name": "onomatopoeic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic, from the gang's cry.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Whyo",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p",
        "sg": "Whyo"
      },
      "expansion": "Whyos pl (normally plural, singular Whyo)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English onomatopoeias",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for pronunciation in English entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A street gang of New York City during the mid to late 19th century."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "street",
          "street"
        ],
        [
          "gang",
          "gang"
        ],
        [
          "New York City",
          "New York City"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A street gang of New York City during the mid to late 19th century."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "plural",
        "plural-normally"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Whyos"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Whyos meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 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.