See dirt-poor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for dirt-poor meaning in English (3.2kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "poor as dirt"
},
"expansion": "poor as dirt",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "whip-smart"
},
"expansion": "whip-smart",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "smart as a whip"
},
"expansion": "smart as a whip",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inversion of earlier poor as dirt (compare whip-smart / smart as a whip).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "dirt-poor (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "filthy rich"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Money",
"orig": "en:Money",
"parents": [
"Business",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Poverty",
"orig": "en:Poverty",
"parents": [
"Wealth",
"Economics",
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1975 August 18, “Religion: Blood and Land”, in Time",
"text": "In recent months, the dirt-poor peasants of Honduras have invaded farms and blockaded bridges to force the government to fulfill its promises.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007 August 4, “A critical election for ‘the best dressed man in Turkey’”, in The Week, 625, 16",
"text": "A few years ago it was a dirt-poor outpost populated by rural migrants.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a condition of extreme poverty."
],
"id": "en-dirt-poor-en-adj-njSTNtkt",
"links": [
[
"extreme",
"extreme"
],
[
"poverty",
"poverty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) In a condition of extreme poverty."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dirt poor"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"not-comparable"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "brandarm"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "straatarm"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "rutiköyhä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "bettelarm"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "bláfátækur"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "beo bocht"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "przeubogi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "paupérrimo"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-dirt-poor.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2c/En-au-dirt-poor.ogg/En-au-dirt-poor.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/En-au-dirt-poor.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "dirt-poor"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "poor as dirt"
},
"expansion": "poor as dirt",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "whip-smart"
},
"expansion": "whip-smart",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "smart as a whip"
},
"expansion": "smart as a whip",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inversion of earlier poor as dirt (compare whip-smart / smart as a whip).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "dirt-poor (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "filthy rich"
}
],
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English compound adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Requests for review of Hungarian translations",
"en:Money",
"en:Poverty"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1975 August 18, “Religion: Blood and Land”, in Time",
"text": "In recent months, the dirt-poor peasants of Honduras have invaded farms and blockaded bridges to force the government to fulfill its promises.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007 August 4, “A critical election for ‘the best dressed man in Turkey’”, in The Week, 625, 16",
"text": "A few years ago it was a dirt-poor outpost populated by rural migrants.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a condition of extreme poverty."
],
"links": [
[
"extreme",
"extreme"
],
[
"poverty",
"poverty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) In a condition of extreme poverty."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-dirt-poor.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2c/En-au-dirt-poor.ogg/En-au-dirt-poor.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/En-au-dirt-poor.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dirt poor"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "brandarm"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "straatarm"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "rutiköyhä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "bettelarm"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "bláfátækur"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "beo bocht"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "przeubogi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "very poor",
"word": "paupérrimo"
}
],
"word": "dirt-poor"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (8203a16 and 304864d). 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.