person from Porlock in English

Forms: persons from Porlock [plural], people from Porlock [plural] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: In reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion. Head templates: {{en-noun|persons from Porlock|people from Porlock}} person from Porlock (plural persons from Porlock or people from Porlock)

Inflected forms

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{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "persons from Porlock",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "people from Porlock",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important."
      ],
      "id": "en-person_from_Porlock-en-noun-6MiZi8-z",
      "links": [
        [
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        ],
        [
          "interruption",
          "interruption"
        ],
        [
          "completion",
          "completion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "porlock"
        },
        {
          "word": "Porlockian"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "man from Porlock"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "person from Porlock"
}

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{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "persons from Porlock",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "people from Porlock",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "persons from Porlock",
        "2": "people from Porlock"
      },
      "expansion": "person from Porlock (plural persons from Porlock or people from Porlock)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "porlock"
    },
    {
      "word": "Porlockian"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inconvenient",
          "inconvenient"
        ],
        [
          "interruption",
          "interruption"
        ],
        [
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "man from Porlock"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "person from Porlock"
}

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"person from Porlock" meaning in English

Noun

Inflected forms