"exie-osies" meaning in English

See exie-osies in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: X + -ie + O + -sies; after the shapes used on the board. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|X|ie}} X + -ie, {{suffix|en|O|sies}} O + -sies Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} exie-osies (uncountable)
  1. (Northern Ireland) The game of tic-tac-toe. Tags: Northern-Ireland, uncountable

Download JSON data for exie-osies meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "X",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "X + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "O",
        "3": "sies"
      },
      "expansion": "O + -sies",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "X + -ie + O + -sies; after the shapes used on the board.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "exie-osies (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ie",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -sies",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Northern Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:exie-osies."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The game of tic-tac-toe."
      ],
      "id": "en-exie-osies-en-noun-XINmE2DK",
      "links": [
        [
          "tic-tac-toe",
          "tic-tac-toe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern Ireland) The game of tic-tac-toe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Northern-Ireland",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "exie-osies"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "X",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "X + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "O",
        "3": "sies"
      },
      "expansion": "O + -sies",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "X + -ie + O + -sies; after the shapes used on the board.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "exie-osies (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ie",
        "English terms suffixed with -sies",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Northern Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:exie-osies."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The game of tic-tac-toe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tic-tac-toe",
          "tic-tac-toe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern Ireland) The game of tic-tac-toe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Northern-Ireland",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "exie-osies"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). 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.