"on about" meaning in English

See on about in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{head|en|adjective}} on about
  1. (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Speaking about, talking of. Tags: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, informal Categories (topical): Talking Related terms: go on, on and on

Download JSON data for on about meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "on about",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British 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 entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Zealand English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Talking",
          "orig": "en:Talking",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "What are you on about?"
        },
        {
          "text": "They were on about some kind of UFO conspiracy theory."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Speaking about, talking of."
      ],
      "id": "en-on_about-en-adj-hWjE-DQs",
      "links": [
        [
          "Speaking",
          "speaking"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Speaking about, talking of."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "go on"
        },
        {
          "word": "on and on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand",
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "on about"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "on about",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "go on"
    },
    {
      "word": "on and on"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "New Zealand English",
        "en:Talking"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "What are you on about?"
        },
        {
          "text": "They were on about some kind of UFO conspiracy theory."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Speaking about, talking of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Speaking",
          "speaking"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Speaking about, talking of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand",
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "on about"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 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.