See primly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for primly meaning in English (1.3kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prim",
"3": "ly"
},
"expansion": "prim + -ly",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "prim + -ly",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more primly",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most primly",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "primly (comparative more primly, superlative most primly)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1949, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister",
"text": "She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a prim manner."
],
"id": "en-primly-en-adv-cg~b-rsa",
"links": [
[
"prim",
"prim"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "in a prim manner",
"word": "precisely"
},
{
"sense": "in a prim manner",
"word": "properly"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in a prudish manner",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mojigatamente"
}
]
}
],
"word": "primly"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prim",
"3": "ly"
},
"expansion": "prim + -ly",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "prim + -ly",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more primly",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most primly",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "primly (comparative more primly, superlative most primly)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ly",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1949, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister",
"text": "She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a prim manner."
],
"links": [
[
"prim",
"prim"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "in a prim manner",
"word": "precisely"
},
{
"sense": "in a prim manner",
"word": "properly"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in a prudish manner",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mojigatamente"
}
],
"word": "primly"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). 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.