"dinkum oil" meaning in English

See dinkum oil in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: EN-AU ck1 dinkum oil.ogg
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} dinkum oil (uncountable)
  1. (Australia, slang) The truth. Tags: Australia, slang, uncountable Synonyms: good oil
    Sense id: en-dinkum_oil-en-noun-uobHq1bK Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dinkum oil (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, Lennie Lower, Here's Luck, page 59:",
          "text": "We get the dinkum oil off him. He knows all the jockeys and trainers and everything.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The truth."
      ],
      "id": "en-dinkum_oil-en-noun-uobHq1bK",
      "links": [
        [
          "truth",
          "truth#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, slang) The truth."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "good oil"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "EN-AU ck1 dinkum oil.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/EN-AU_ck1_dinkum_oil.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_dinkum_oil.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/EN-AU_ck1_dinkum_oil.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dinkum oil"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dinkum oil (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, Lennie Lower, Here's Luck, page 59:",
          "text": "We get the dinkum oil off him. He knows all the jockeys and trainers and everything.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The truth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "truth",
          "truth#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, slang) The truth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "EN-AU ck1 dinkum oil.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/EN-AU_ck1_dinkum_oil.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_dinkum_oil.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/EN-AU_ck1_dinkum_oil.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "good oil"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dinkum oil"
}

Download raw JSONL data for dinkum oil meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.