"irie" meaning in English

See irie in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more irie [comparative], most irie [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole irie, which is perhaps from English all right. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|jam|irie}} Jamaican Creole irie, {{der|en|en|all right}} English all right Head templates: {{en-adj}} irie (comparative more irie, superlative most irie)
  1. Cool, nice.

Download JSON data for irie meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jam",
        "3": "irie"
      },
      "expansion": "Jamaican Creole irie",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "all right"
      },
      "expansion": "English all right",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Jamaican Creole irie, which is perhaps from English all right.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more irie",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most irie",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "irie (comparative more irie, superlative most irie)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "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 borrowed back into English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Cool, nice."
      ],
      "id": "en-irie-en-adj-tycTGdHN",
      "links": [
        [
          "Cool",
          "cool"
        ],
        [
          "nice",
          "nice"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "irie"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jam",
        "3": "irie"
      },
      "expansion": "Jamaican Creole irie",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "all right"
      },
      "expansion": "English all right",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Jamaican Creole irie, which is perhaps from English all right.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more irie",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most irie",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "irie (comparative more irie, superlative most irie)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms borrowed back into English",
        "English terms borrowed from Jamaican Creole",
        "English terms derived from Jamaican Creole"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Cool, nice."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Cool",
          "cool"
        ],
        [
          "nice",
          "nice"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "irie"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). 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.