"make-fray" meaning in English

See make-fray in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: make-frays [plural]
Etymology: From make + fray. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|make|fray}} make + fray Head templates: {{en-noun}} make-fray (plural make-frays)
  1. (obsolete) Someone who instigates quarrels. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): People Synonyms: breedbate, brewbate, makebate, make-debate

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "make",
        "3": "fray"
      },
      "expansion": "make + fray",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From make + fray.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "make-frays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "make-fray (plural make-frays)",
      "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 exocentric verb-noun compounds",
          "parents": [
            "Exocentric verb-noun compounds",
            "Verb-noun compounds",
            "Exocentric compounds",
            "Verb-object compounds",
            "Compound terms",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Alternative form: makefray"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1656, Joseph Hall, “Satire IV”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 5, published 1810, page 276:",
          "text": "If brabbling Make-fray, at each fair and size, / Picks quarrels for to show his valiantize,",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who instigates quarrels."
      ],
      "id": "en-make-fray-en-noun-1GHpGM3l",
      "links": [
        [
          "instigate",
          "instigate"
        ],
        [
          "quarrel",
          "quarrel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Someone who instigates quarrels."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "breedbate"
        },
        {
          "word": "brewbate"
        },
        {
          "word": "makebate"
        },
        {
          "word": "make-debate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make-fray"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "make",
        "3": "fray"
      },
      "expansion": "make + fray",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From make + fray.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "make-frays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "make-fray (plural make-frays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English exocentric verb-noun compounds",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Alternative form: makefray"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1656, Joseph Hall, “Satire IV”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 5, published 1810, page 276:",
          "text": "If brabbling Make-fray, at each fair and size, / Picks quarrels for to show his valiantize,",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who instigates quarrels."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "instigate",
          "instigate"
        ],
        [
          "quarrel",
          "quarrel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Someone who instigates quarrels."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "breedbate"
    },
    {
      "word": "brewbate"
    },
    {
      "word": "makebate"
    },
    {
      "word": "make-debate"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make-fray"
}

Download raw JSONL data for make-fray 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 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.