"flattie" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-flattie.ogg Forms: flatties [plural]
Etymology: From flat + -ie. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|flat|ie}} flat + -ie Head templates: {{en-noun}} flattie (plural flatties)
  1. Alternative form of flatty Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: flatty
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-9~oCoA3o
  2. (informal arachnology) A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-8dCFhePE Topics: arachnology, biology, natural-sciences, zoology
  3. (informal) A flat white (type of coffee). Tags: informal Categories (topical): Coffee
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-LfsQvKTo Disambiguation of Coffee: 1 6 38 7 5 5 7 6 5 14 3 2 1
  4. (South Africa) A flat marinated cut of meat. Tags: South-Africa
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-eoW6g9fZ Categories (other): South African English
  5. (slang) A flat store. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-u8gOGp9P
  6. A flat-bottomed sloop-rigged sharpie.
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-YJ8xU-8U
  7. (informal) A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed to a deepie. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Flat earth
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-a6lbmglM Disambiguation of Flat earth: 3 4 12 10 8 3 20 14 6 8 5 2 5
  8. (Internet slang) A flat earther. Tags: Internet
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-rtyyOHaO
  9. (slang) The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-gNNMMAuR
  10. (informal) A Flat-coated Retriever. Tags: informal Categories (lifeform): Dionychan spiders, Retrievers
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-so~TfeFi Disambiguation of Dionychan spiders: 1 16 6 11 7 5 3 10 6 27 5 3 0 Disambiguation of Retrievers: 1 9 7 10 7 4 3 10 6 35 5 2 1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ie, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 10 8 12 9 5 3 12 7 25 6 3 1 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ie: 2 10 6 11 7 7 3 11 6 27 5 3 1 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 10 8 12 9 5 4 12 6 25 6 3 0
  11. (informal) A person with a flat chest, i.e., without breasts. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-k~9GuME4
  12. (informal) A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-ykmkMdDh
  13. (informal) A flatmate. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-flattie-en-noun-fltbNe8z

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). 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.