"pourboire" meaning in English

See pourboire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: pourboires [plural]
Etymology: French pourboire Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|pourboire}} French pourboire Head templates: {{en-noun}} pourboire (plural pourboires)
  1. A tip (extra money given to e.g. a waiter in appreciation of service), especially in French contexts.
    Sense id: en-pourboire-en-noun-uZwLweIL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6
  2. A bribe.
    Sense id: en-pourboire-en-noun-l~DXJzs0

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pourboire meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "pourboire"
      },
      "expansion": "French pourboire",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "French pourboire",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pourboires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pourboire (plural pourboires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tip (extra money given to e.g. a waiter in appreciation of service), especially in French contexts."
      ],
      "id": "en-pourboire-en-noun-uZwLweIL",
      "links": [
        [
          "tip",
          "tip"
        ],
        [
          "French",
          "French"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A bribe."
      ],
      "id": "en-pourboire-en-noun-l~DXJzs0",
      "links": [
        [
          "bribe",
          "bribe"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pourboire"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "pourboire"
      },
      "expansion": "French pourboire",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "French pourboire",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pourboires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pourboire (plural pourboires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A tip (extra money given to e.g. a waiter in appreciation of service), especially in French contexts."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tip",
          "tip"
        ],
        [
          "French",
          "French"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A bribe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bribe",
          "bribe"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pourboire"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e 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.