"piece of goods" meaning in English

See piece of goods in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: pieces of goods [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|pieces of goods}} piece of goods (plural pieces of goods)
  1. (slang, obsolete) A person, especially one with undesirable flaws or other notable characteristics. Tags: obsolete, slang Hyponyms: piece of work
    Sense id: en-piece_of_goods-en-noun-Mt8AtooI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, goods. Related terms: piece goods
    Sense id: en-piece_of_goods-en-noun-9UJRYhV~

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for piece of goods meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pieces of goods",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pieces of goods"
      },
      "expansion": "piece of goods (plural pieces of goods)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Fenton's Quest",
          "text": "'Well, upon my word,' exclaimed the father, taking the pipe from his mouth, and staring aghast at his daughter in a stupor of indignant surprise, 'you're a pretty article; you're a nice piece of goods for a man to bring up and waste his substance upon […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person, especially one with undesirable flaws or other notable characteristics."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "piece of work"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-piece_of_goods-en-noun-Mt8AtooI",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, obsolete) A person, especially one with undesirable flaws or other notable characteristics."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, N.Y. Supreme Court General Term, page 34",
          "text": "Usually a silk salesman, a man is accustomed to take his piece of goods and handle them, and roll them out and show them to his customers, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, goods."
      ],
      "id": "en-piece_of_goods-en-noun-9UJRYhV~",
      "links": [
        [
          "piece",
          "piece#English"
        ],
        [
          "of",
          "of#English"
        ],
        [
          "goods",
          "goods#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "19 81",
          "word": "piece goods"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "piece of goods"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pieces of goods",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pieces of goods"
      },
      "expansion": "piece of goods (plural pieces of goods)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "piece goods"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Fenton's Quest",
          "text": "'Well, upon my word,' exclaimed the father, taking the pipe from his mouth, and staring aghast at his daughter in a stupor of indignant surprise, 'you're a pretty article; you're a nice piece of goods for a man to bring up and waste his substance upon […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person, especially one with undesirable flaws or other notable characteristics."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "piece of work"
        }
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, obsolete) A person, especially one with undesirable flaws or other notable characteristics."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, N.Y. Supreme Court General Term, page 34",
          "text": "Usually a silk salesman, a man is accustomed to take his piece of goods and handle them, and roll them out and show them to his customers, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, goods."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "piece",
          "piece#English"
        ],
        [
          "of",
          "of#English"
        ],
        [
          "goods",
          "goods#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "piece of goods"
}

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.