See hoofer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "hoof", "3": "er", "id2": "agent noun", "pos1": "verb", "t1": "dance" }, "expansion": "hoof (“dance”, verb) + -er", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "From hoof (“dance”, verb) + -er.", "forms": [ { "form": "hoofers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "hoofer (plural hoofers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "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 -er (agent noun)", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Italian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tell a Green Man Something”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 208:", "text": "Once a good friend of mine, a fine hoofer who was having trouble getting bookings, ran up to that tree, gave it a big smack, and yelled “Lawd please make me a pimp, any kind of a pimp, long as I’m pimpin’. I’m tired of scufflin’ and my feet are too long outa work.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues." ], "id": "en-hoofer-en-noun-GLasRnou", "links": [ [ "dancer", "dancer" ], [ "paid his or her dues", "pay one's dues" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, slang) A professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues." ], "tags": [ "US", "slang" ], "translations": [ { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "professional dancer", "word": "ballerino" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "professional dancer", "word": "ballerina" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-hoofer.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/74/En-au-hoofer.ogg/En-au-hoofer.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-au-hoofer.ogg" } ], "word": "hoofer" }
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "hoof", "3": "er", "id2": "agent noun", "pos1": "verb", "t1": "dance" }, "expansion": "hoof (“dance”, verb) + -er", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "From hoof (“dance”, verb) + -er.", "forms": [ { "form": "hoofers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "hoofer (plural hoofers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "American English", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English slang", "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)", "English terms with quotations", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Italian translations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tell a Green Man Something”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 208:", "text": "Once a good friend of mine, a fine hoofer who was having trouble getting bookings, ran up to that tree, gave it a big smack, and yelled “Lawd please make me a pimp, any kind of a pimp, long as I’m pimpin’. I’m tired of scufflin’ and my feet are too long outa work.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues." ], "links": [ [ "dancer", "dancer" ], [ "paid his or her dues", "pay one's dues" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, slang) A professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues." ], "tags": [ "US", "slang" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-hoofer.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/74/En-au-hoofer.ogg/En-au-hoofer.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-au-hoofer.ogg" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "professional dancer", "word": "ballerino" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "professional dancer", "word": "ballerina" } ], "word": "hoofer" }
Download raw JSONL data for hoofer meaning in English (2.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). 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.