"dropsies" meaning in English

See dropsies in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} dropsies
  1. plural of dropsy Tags: form-of, plural Form of: dropsy
    Sense id: en-dropsies-en-noun-2s4Nzw92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Etymology: drop + -sies Etymology templates: {{suf|en|drop|sies}} drop + -sies Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} dropsies (uncountable)
  1. The action of dropping something, in certain children's games. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-dropsies-en-noun-A3ljjkH~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -sies Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -sies: 12 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Download JSON data for dropsies meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "noun form"
      },
      "expansion": "dropsies",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "dropsy"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural of dropsy"
      ],
      "id": "en-dropsies-en-noun-2s4Nzw92",
      "links": [
        [
          "dropsy",
          "dropsy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dropsies"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "drop",
        "3": "sies"
      },
      "expansion": "drop + -sies",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "drop + -sies",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dropsies (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -sies",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The action of dropping something, in certain children's games."
      ],
      "id": "en-dropsies-en-noun-A3ljjkH~",
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dropsies"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English noun forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -sies",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "noun form"
      },
      "expansion": "dropsies",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "dropsy"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural of dropsy"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dropsy",
          "dropsy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dropsies"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -sies",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "drop",
        "3": "sies"
      },
      "expansion": "drop + -sies",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "drop + -sies",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dropsies (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The action of dropping something, in certain children's games."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dropsies"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). 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.