"furrin" meaning in English

See furrin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more furrin [comparative], most furrin [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} furrin (comparative more furrin, superlative most furrin)
  1. Pronunciation spelling of foreign. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: foreign
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more furrin",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most furrin",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "furrin (comparative more furrin, superlative most furrin)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "foreign"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pronunciation spellings",
          "parents": [
            "Pronunciation spellings",
            "Terms by orthographic property",
            "Terms by lexical property"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1882, Louisa M. Alcott, Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories:",
          "text": "I do relish the smart sayins, the odd ways of furrin parts, and the sarcastic slaps at folkses weak spots.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1877, R. D. Blackmore, Erema:",
          "text": "And the gutturals of that furrin English is always a little hard to catch.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:",
          "text": "Not that my young gentleman is troublesome, mind you, only so full of them outlandish furrin ways--abideth all day long without ating ort, so different from a honest Englishman.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pronunciation spelling of foreign."
      ],
      "id": "en-furrin-en-adj-DE1nD4ne",
      "links": [
        [
          "Pronunciation spelling",
          "pronunciation spelling"
        ],
        [
          "foreign",
          "foreign#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "furrin"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more furrin",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most furrin",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "furrin (comparative more furrin, superlative most furrin)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "foreign"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English pronunciation spellings",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1882, Louisa M. Alcott, Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories:",
          "text": "I do relish the smart sayins, the odd ways of furrin parts, and the sarcastic slaps at folkses weak spots.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1877, R. D. Blackmore, Erema:",
          "text": "And the gutturals of that furrin English is always a little hard to catch.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:",
          "text": "Not that my young gentleman is troublesome, mind you, only so full of them outlandish furrin ways--abideth all day long without ating ort, so different from a honest Englishman.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pronunciation spelling of foreign."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Pronunciation spelling",
          "pronunciation spelling"
        ],
        [
          "foreign",
          "foreign#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "furrin"
}

Download raw JSONL data for furrin meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). 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.