See circ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "See circus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "circ (plural circs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "42 48 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:",
"text": "It is remarkable, that circs of the same ſort are still to be seen in Cornwall",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus."
],
"id": "en-circ-en-noun-k0hKO~F1",
"links": [
[
"amphitheatrical",
"amphitheatrical"
],
[
"circle",
"circle"
],
[
"sport",
"sport"
],
[
"circus",
"circus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɝk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sɜːk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)k"
}
],
"word": "circ"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "circumcision"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of circumcision",
"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "circumcise"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of circumcise",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipping of circumcision. Clipping of circumcise.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "circ (plural circs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "42 48 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 13 27 42 6 3 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 15 30 41 4 2 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 72 24",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Circumcision",
"orig": "en:Circumcision",
"parents": [
"Genitalia",
"Surgery",
"Body parts",
"Reproduction",
"Sex",
"Medicine",
"Body",
"Anatomy",
"Life",
"All topics",
"Biology",
"Healthcare",
"Nature",
"Fundamental",
"Sciences",
"Health"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "anti-circ"
},
{
"word": "pro-circ"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2001, Richard Gordon, Great Medical Mysteries, House of Stratus, published 2001, →ISBN, page 65:",
"text": "During the pre-NHS 1930s, circumcision was as fashionable among the British middle class as confirmation. Breech deliveries were said to be popular with both obstetrician and anaesthetist, a boy assuring them early in the birth of 'a couple of guineas next week for the circ.'",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Michelle Au, This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:",
"text": "The circ is progressing apace when, without warning, one of the nurses bursts in from outside, and I mean bursts in, as opposed to entering soundlessly and unobtrusively as we all try to (with the exception of the attending surgeons, who always burst in), and tells us, \"Someone just crashed a plane into one of the Twin Towers.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Maggie Kozel, The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine, Chelsea Green Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN, page 50:",
"text": "Ironically, our Japanese-born colleague Seiji, who came from a culture that did not circumcise, had no problem with it. In fact, he was amazing to behold. Seiji could finish a \"slice and dice,\" as we called it, before I could even get my gloves on. Bob and I would change every poopy, slimy diaper in that nursery just to stall until Seiji finished the circs.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Circumcision."
],
"id": "en-circ-en-noun-RSaGRMnT",
"links": [
[
"Circumcision",
"circumcision"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Circumcision."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɝk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sɜːk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)k"
}
],
"word": "circ"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "circumcision"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of circumcision",
"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "circumcise"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of circumcise",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipping of circumcision. Clipping of circumcise.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "circing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "circed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "circed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "circ (third-person singular simple present circs, present participle circing, simple past and past participle circed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1998 May 18, Barbara Fraire, “Re: OT/formula moms love babies less??”, in misc.kids.breastfeeding (Usenet):",
"text": "Again, I don't think I was *wrong* to circ my son, though some may choose to disagree quite loudly with that statement; I just think not circing is a better decision.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000 January 1, Wade & Litha, “Re: The dreaded circ issue rears its ugly head in my house!”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet):",
"text": "I'm not stating how i feel either way but i like it that my husband was circed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Nick J. Myers III, Sex & Sensuality: Essays on Fun Stuff, iUniverse, published 2007, →ISBN:",
"text": "If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To circumcise."
],
"id": "en-circ-en-verb--N2HLSZv",
"links": [
[
"circumcise",
"circumcise"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) To circumcise."
],
"related": [
{
"english": "circumstances",
"word": "circs"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɝk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sɜːk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)k"
}
],
"word": "circ"
}
{
"categories": [
"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)k",
"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)k/1 syllable",
"en:Circumcision"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "See circus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "circ (plural circs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:",
"text": "It is remarkable, that circs of the same ſort are still to be seen in Cornwall",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus."
],
"links": [
[
"amphitheatrical",
"amphitheatrical"
],
[
"circle",
"circle"
],
[
"sport",
"sport"
],
[
"circus",
"circus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɝk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sɜːk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)k"
}
],
"word": "circ"
}
{
"categories": [
"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)k",
"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)k/1 syllable",
"en:Circumcision"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "anti-circ"
},
{
"word": "pro-circ"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "circumcision"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of circumcision",
"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "circumcise"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of circumcise",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipping of circumcision. Clipping of circumcise.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "circ (plural circs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2001, Richard Gordon, Great Medical Mysteries, House of Stratus, published 2001, →ISBN, page 65:",
"text": "During the pre-NHS 1930s, circumcision was as fashionable among the British middle class as confirmation. Breech deliveries were said to be popular with both obstetrician and anaesthetist, a boy assuring them early in the birth of 'a couple of guineas next week for the circ.'",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Michelle Au, This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:",
"text": "The circ is progressing apace when, without warning, one of the nurses bursts in from outside, and I mean bursts in, as opposed to entering soundlessly and unobtrusively as we all try to (with the exception of the attending surgeons, who always burst in), and tells us, \"Someone just crashed a plane into one of the Twin Towers.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Maggie Kozel, The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine, Chelsea Green Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN, page 50:",
"text": "Ironically, our Japanese-born colleague Seiji, who came from a culture that did not circumcise, had no problem with it. In fact, he was amazing to behold. Seiji could finish a \"slice and dice,\" as we called it, before I could even get my gloves on. Bob and I would change every poopy, slimy diaper in that nursery just to stall until Seiji finished the circs.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Circumcision."
],
"links": [
[
"Circumcision",
"circumcision"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Circumcision."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɝk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sɜːk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)k"
}
],
"word": "circ"
}
{
"categories": [
"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)k",
"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)k/1 syllable",
"en:Circumcision"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "circumcision"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of circumcision",
"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "circumcise"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of circumcise",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipping of circumcision. Clipping of circumcise.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "circing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "circed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "circed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "circ (third-person singular simple present circs, present participle circing, simple past and past participle circed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"english": "circumstances",
"word": "circs"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1998 May 18, Barbara Fraire, “Re: OT/formula moms love babies less??”, in misc.kids.breastfeeding (Usenet):",
"text": "Again, I don't think I was *wrong* to circ my son, though some may choose to disagree quite loudly with that statement; I just think not circing is a better decision.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000 January 1, Wade & Litha, “Re: The dreaded circ issue rears its ugly head in my house!”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet):",
"text": "I'm not stating how i feel either way but i like it that my husband was circed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Nick J. Myers III, Sex & Sensuality: Essays on Fun Stuff, iUniverse, published 2007, →ISBN:",
"text": "If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To circumcise."
],
"links": [
[
"circumcise",
"circumcise"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) To circumcise."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɝk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sɜːk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)k"
}
],
"word": "circ"
}
Download raw JSONL data for circ meaning in English (6.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). 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.