See captainy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"captain",
"captain#English"
],
[
"-y",
"-y#English:_adjectival"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "captain",
"3": "y<id:adjectival>"
},
"expansion": "captain + -y",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From captain + -y.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more captainy",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most captainy",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "captainy (comparative more captainy, superlative most captainy)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
40,
48
]
],
"ref": "1998 July 26, Joe Rosales, “FURRY MOVIE CASTING CALL”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):",
"text": "Have you seen this guy? He's very, very captainy. True, he's no Bob Keeshan; but he's definitely a Captain.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
108,
116
]
],
"ref": "2002 October 5, Frank Swarbrick, “Firefly episode 3 -- much improved!”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):",
"text": "BTW, anyone else think Mal talks a lot like Joss does in interviews? \"I'm the captain. I'm going to do some captainy things\" (or some-such). I^([sic]) bit cutesy, but quite appropriate and humorous in the particular situation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
180,
188
]
],
"ref": "2004 April 11, Sean Higgins, “My Take DS9, Voyager, Enterprise”, in alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise (Usenet):",
"text": "The writers made Janeway to be a bad ass way too much, because it just came across unbelievable in the later seasons. I didn't mind a woman captain, but she was always so cold and captainy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Resembling or characteristic of a captain."
],
"id": "en-captainy-en-adj-Cy-bquHx",
"links": [
[
"captain",
"captain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a captain."
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "captainy"
}
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"captain",
"captain#English"
],
[
"-y",
"-y#English:_adjectival"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "captain",
"3": "y<id:adjectival>"
},
"expansion": "captain + -y",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From captain + -y.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more captainy",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most captainy",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "captainy (comparative more captainy, superlative most captainy)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English informal terms",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival)",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
40,
48
]
],
"ref": "1998 July 26, Joe Rosales, “FURRY MOVIE CASTING CALL”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):",
"text": "Have you seen this guy? He's very, very captainy. True, he's no Bob Keeshan; but he's definitely a Captain.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
108,
116
]
],
"ref": "2002 October 5, Frank Swarbrick, “Firefly episode 3 -- much improved!”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):",
"text": "BTW, anyone else think Mal talks a lot like Joss does in interviews? \"I'm the captain. I'm going to do some captainy things\" (or some-such). I^([sic]) bit cutesy, but quite appropriate and humorous in the particular situation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
180,
188
]
],
"ref": "2004 April 11, Sean Higgins, “My Take DS9, Voyager, Enterprise”, in alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise (Usenet):",
"text": "The writers made Janeway to be a bad ass way too much, because it just came across unbelievable in the later seasons. I didn't mind a woman captain, but she was always so cold and captainy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Resembling or characteristic of a captain."
],
"links": [
[
"captain",
"captain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a captain."
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "captainy"
}
Download raw JSONL data for captainy meaning in English (2.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-10-01 using wiktextract (c1bb342 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.