"kick-assery" meaning in English

See kick-assery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From kick ass + -ery or kick-ass + -ery. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|kick ass|-ery}} kick ass + -ery, {{suf|en|kick-ass|-ery}} kick-ass + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} kick-assery (uncountable)
  1. (vulgar) The act of kicking ass (in various senses). Tags: uncountable, vulgar Synonyms: kickassery
    Sense id: en-kick-assery-en-noun-zEchli5m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for kick-assery meaning in English (1.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kick ass",
        "3": "-ery"
      },
      "expansion": "kick ass + -ery",
      "name": "suf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kick-ass",
        "3": "-ery"
      },
      "expansion": "kick-ass + -ery",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From kick ass + -ery or kick-ass + -ery.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "kick-assery (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "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 suffixed with -ery",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 17, Scott Collura, “Comic-Con: Resident Evil Movie Series to End?”, in IGN, Los Angeles, C.A.: News Corporation, archived from the original on 2023-03-11",
          "text": "Set in an icy landscape, it features the usual amount of slow-mo kick-assery, but the most interesting aspect of it all came when [Michelle] Rodriguez injected herself in the neck with some kind of drug.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 6, Alexandra Polk, “We Asked 5 Black Moms On What It's Like To Run A Business (& A Family)”, in Refinery29, New York, N.Y.: Vice Media, archived from the original on 2023-11-01",
          "text": "As the daughter of an illustrious Black woman, if there's one thing I know Black moms do, it's work hard. I'm not here to diminish the efforts of other mothers, but I am well-versed in the kickassery that is Black motherhood (as an admirer, not an actual mom).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of kicking ass (in various senses)."
      ],
      "id": "en-kick-assery-en-noun-zEchli5m",
      "links": [
        [
          "kicking ass",
          "kick ass#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar) The act of kicking ass (in various senses)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kickassery"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kick-assery"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kick ass",
        "3": "-ery"
      },
      "expansion": "kick ass + -ery",
      "name": "suf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kick-ass",
        "3": "-ery"
      },
      "expansion": "kick-ass + -ery",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From kick ass + -ery or kick-ass + -ery.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "kick-assery (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ery",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 17, Scott Collura, “Comic-Con: Resident Evil Movie Series to End?”, in IGN, Los Angeles, C.A.: News Corporation, archived from the original on 2023-03-11",
          "text": "Set in an icy landscape, it features the usual amount of slow-mo kick-assery, but the most interesting aspect of it all came when [Michelle] Rodriguez injected herself in the neck with some kind of drug.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 6, Alexandra Polk, “We Asked 5 Black Moms On What It's Like To Run A Business (& A Family)”, in Refinery29, New York, N.Y.: Vice Media, archived from the original on 2023-11-01",
          "text": "As the daughter of an illustrious Black woman, if there's one thing I know Black moms do, it's work hard. I'm not here to diminish the efforts of other mothers, but I am well-versed in the kickassery that is Black motherhood (as an admirer, not an actual mom).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of kicking ass (in various senses)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "kicking ass",
          "kick ass#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar) The act of kicking ass (in various senses)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "kickassery"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kick-assery"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.