"shonuff" meaning in English

See shonuff in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} shonuff (not comparable)
  1. Alternative form of sho nuff (sure enough) Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: sho nuff (extra: sure enough)
    Sense id: en-shonuff-en-adv-BVHS5vX8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "shonuff (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "sure enough",
          "word": "sho nuff"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Geneva Smitherman, Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 199:",
          "text": "Now, me bein me, I had to correct my man's \"bad grammar.\" I said, \"Hey, watch yo dialect — it's you and J have some work to do.\" He turned fifty shades o' red, and I split. Naturally, that siggin of mine had shonuff blowed the possibility of me gittin any grant money!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Sonia Sanchez, “For Tupac Amaru Shakur”, in Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems, Boston, M.A.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "love yo self / til you resist being a shonuff stud fuckin / everything in sight, til you resist raping / yo sister, yo wife, somebody's grandmother.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 156:",
          "text": "They get on my nerves, shonuff, but rabbits is still God's creatures. And sometimes, we creatures got to look out for each other.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of sho nuff (sure enough)"
      ],
      "id": "en-shonuff-en-adv-BVHS5vX8",
      "links": [
        [
          "sho nuff",
          "sho nuff#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shonuff"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "shonuff (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "sure enough",
          "word": "sho nuff"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adverbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Geneva Smitherman, Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 199:",
          "text": "Now, me bein me, I had to correct my man's \"bad grammar.\" I said, \"Hey, watch yo dialect — it's you and J have some work to do.\" He turned fifty shades o' red, and I split. Naturally, that siggin of mine had shonuff blowed the possibility of me gittin any grant money!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Sonia Sanchez, “For Tupac Amaru Shakur”, in Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems, Boston, M.A.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "love yo self / til you resist being a shonuff stud fuckin / everything in sight, til you resist raping / yo sister, yo wife, somebody's grandmother.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 156:",
          "text": "They get on my nerves, shonuff, but rabbits is still God's creatures. And sometimes, we creatures got to look out for each other.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of sho nuff (sure enough)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sho nuff",
          "sho nuff#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shonuff"
}

Download raw JSONL data for shonuff meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). 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.