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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Stan Timmons, Ammon's Horn",
"text": "A spike of white bone peekabooed through the flesh of his wrist and blood spurted.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Marianne Harden, Malicious Mischief",
"text": "“Mount Rainier has escaped the clouds.” I turned to the volcano peekabooing through the trees in the distance.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To peep out."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To peep out."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "peek-a-boo"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"peekaboo"
],
"word": "peekaboo"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms interfixed with -a-",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"en:Clothing"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "peek",
"3": "-a-",
"4": "boo"
},
"expansion": "peek + -a- + boo",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From peek + -a- + boo.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "peekaboo",
"name": "en-interj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"related": [
{
"word": "Picabo"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Boo (when showing oneself unexpectedly)."
],
"links": [
[
"Boo",
"boo"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "peep bo"
},
{
"word": "peep-bo"
},
{
"word": "peepbo"
},
{
"word": "peepo"
}
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "peek-a-boo"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"peekaboo"
],
"word": "peekaboo"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). 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.