have a sixpenny bit up one’s backside in English

Forms: have a sixpenny bit up one's backside [canonical], has a sixpenny bit up one's backside [present, singular, third-person], having a sixpenny bit up one's backside [participle, present], had a sixpenny bit up one's backside [participle, past], had a sixpenny bit up one's backside [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: . Head templates: {{en-verb|have<has,,had> a sixpenny bit up one's backside|head=have a sixpenny bit up one's backside}} have a sixpenny bit up one's backside (third-person singular simple present has a sixpenny bit up one's backside, present participle having a sixpenny bit up one's backside, simple past and past participle had a sixpenny bit up one's backside)

Download JSON data for have a sixpenny bit up one’s backside meaning in English (1.8kB)

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": ".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "have a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "has a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
        "head": "have a sixpenny bit up one's backside"
      },
      "expansion": "have a sixpenny bit up one's backside (third-person singular simple present has a sixpenny bit up one's backside, present participle having a sixpenny bit up one's backside, simple past and past participle had a sixpenny bit up one's backside)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "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 light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Ted Lewis, GBH, Sphere Books, page 174",
          "text": "‘Eddie told me what you done […] Come in here earlier on like he’d got a sixpenny-bit up his backside.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be over the moon, to be very happy."
      ],
      "id": "en-have_a_sixpenny_bit_up_one’s_backside-en-verb-1rV3szN2",
      "links": [
        [
          "over the moon",
          "over the moon"
        ],
        [
          "happy",
          "happy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated, Ireland) To be over the moon, to be very happy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "have a sixpenny bit up one’s backside"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": ".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "have a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "has a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> a sixpenny bit up one's backside",
        "head": "have a sixpenny bit up one's backside"
      },
      "expansion": "have a sixpenny bit up one's backside (third-person singular simple present has a sixpenny bit up one's backside, present participle having a sixpenny bit up one's backside, simple past and past participle had a sixpenny bit up one's backside)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms spelled with ’",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Ted Lewis, GBH, Sphere Books, page 174",
          "text": "‘Eddie told me what you done […] Come in here earlier on like he’d got a sixpenny-bit up his backside.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be over the moon, to be very happy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "over the moon",
          "over the moon"
        ],
        [
          "happy",
          "happy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated, Ireland) To be over the moon, to be very happy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "have a sixpenny bit up one’s backside"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.

"have a sixpenny bit up one’s backside" meaning in English

Verb