See shylock in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From the character Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1600).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shylocks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shylock (plural shylocks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"shy‧lock"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "34 35 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 36 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 37 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Joe Pistone, The Way of the Wiseguy, page 45:",
"text": "Eventually, their gambling debts grow so big that they are cut off from making any more bets, eliminating the chance that they can make enough money to satisfy their shylocks.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, G. T. Harrell, For Members Only: The Story of the Mob's Secret Judge, A True Story, page 229:",
"text": "If a guy got into hock with several shylocks from different crews and was unable to keep up with his weekly payments, a sit-down would have to be called with all of the shylocks involved and their respective capos.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, James Lee Burke, Light of the World, page 429:",
"text": "After Caspian's father killed his credit lines at all the big casinos, he ran up a six-figure tab with a couple of shylocks in Miami, then couldn't make the vig.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A loan shark; a usurer."
],
"id": "en-shylock-en-noun-0PX0LxOb",
"links": [
[
"loan shark",
"loan shark"
],
[
"usurer",
"usurer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US) A loan shark; a usurer."
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English ethnic slurs",
"parents": [
"Ethnic slurs",
"Offensive terms",
"Terms by usage"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "34 35 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 36 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 37 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person of Jewish descent."
],
"id": "en-shylock-en-noun-ZFv~OFfT",
"links": [
[
"ethnic",
"ethnic"
],
[
"slur",
"slur"
],
[
"Jewish",
"Jewish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Jewish descent."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "not always pejorative",
"word": "Yid"
},
{
"word": "heeb"
},
{
"word": "Hymie"
},
{
"word": "kike"
},
{
"word": "sheeny"
}
],
"tags": [
"ethnic",
"offensive",
"slur"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃaɪlɑk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃaɪlɒk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-shylock.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/En-au-shylock.ogg/En-au-shylock.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-au-shylock.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"The Merchant of Venice"
],
"word": "shylock"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From the character Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1600).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shylocks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shylocking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shylocked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shylocked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shylock (third-person singular simple present shylocks, present participle shylocking, simple past and past participle shylocked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"shy‧lock"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "15 25 61",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 17 58",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 23 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 13 73",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "30 21 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 35 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 36 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 27 52",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 37 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004 December 8, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 4928:",
"text": "I wanted to know whether shylocking is a legal business or not, and if it is legal, under which Act does it operate?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Tom Layne, The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh, page 151:",
"text": "When you've accumulated a good stash of money, you may want to go into the nightclub business, or shylocking. Shylocking is free. There is no ten percent vig on loan sharking.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, published 2010:",
"text": "Lori said it sounded outright felonious, but Dad said all he was doing was outsmarting the fat-cat bank owners who shylocked the common man by charging usurious interest rates.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, John Nicholas Iannuzzi, Handbook of Cross Examination: The Mosaic Art, 3rd edition, page 312:",
"text": "Do you recall this question having been put to you—the shylocking business you were involved in continued right up until the time that you were arrested, correct?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest."
],
"id": "en-shylock-en-verb-jfqjadOL",
"links": [
[
"money",
"money"
],
[
"exorbitant",
"exorbitant"
],
[
"interest",
"interest"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, US) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "woekerlenen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "kiskoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "periä kiskurikorkoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "harjoittaa koronkiskontaa"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "ågre"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "ågre"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "ta ockerränta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "ockra"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃaɪlɑk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃaɪlɒk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-shylock.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/En-au-shylock.ogg/En-au-shylock.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-au-shylock.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"The Merchant of Venice"
],
"word": "shylock"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms first attested in Shakespeare",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"etymology_text": "From the character Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1600).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shylocks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shylock (plural shylocks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"shy‧lock"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Joe Pistone, The Way of the Wiseguy, page 45:",
"text": "Eventually, their gambling debts grow so big that they are cut off from making any more bets, eliminating the chance that they can make enough money to satisfy their shylocks.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, G. T. Harrell, For Members Only: The Story of the Mob's Secret Judge, A True Story, page 229:",
"text": "If a guy got into hock with several shylocks from different crews and was unable to keep up with his weekly payments, a sit-down would have to be called with all of the shylocks involved and their respective capos.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, James Lee Burke, Light of the World, page 429:",
"text": "After Caspian's father killed his credit lines at all the big casinos, he ran up a six-figure tab with a couple of shylocks in Miami, then couldn't make the vig.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A loan shark; a usurer."
],
"links": [
[
"loan shark",
"loan shark"
],
[
"usurer",
"usurer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US) A loan shark; a usurer."
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English ethnic slurs",
"English offensive terms"
],
"glosses": [
"A person of Jewish descent."
],
"links": [
[
"ethnic",
"ethnic"
],
[
"slur",
"slur"
],
[
"Jewish",
"Jewish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Jewish descent."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "not always pejorative",
"word": "Yid"
},
{
"word": "heeb"
},
{
"word": "Hymie"
},
{
"word": "kike"
},
{
"word": "sheeny"
}
],
"tags": [
"ethnic",
"offensive",
"slur"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃaɪlɑk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃaɪlɒk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-shylock.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/En-au-shylock.ogg/En-au-shylock.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-au-shylock.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"The Merchant of Venice"
],
"word": "shylock"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms first attested in Shakespeare",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"etymology_text": "From the character Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1600).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shylocks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shylocking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shylocked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shylocked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shylock (third-person singular simple present shylocks, present participle shylocking, simple past and past participle shylocked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"shy‧lock"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004 December 8, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 4928:",
"text": "I wanted to know whether shylocking is a legal business or not, and if it is legal, under which Act does it operate?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Tom Layne, The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh, page 151:",
"text": "When you've accumulated a good stash of money, you may want to go into the nightclub business, or shylocking. Shylocking is free. There is no ten percent vig on loan sharking.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, published 2010:",
"text": "Lori said it sounded outright felonious, but Dad said all he was doing was outsmarting the fat-cat bank owners who shylocked the common man by charging usurious interest rates.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, John Nicholas Iannuzzi, Handbook of Cross Examination: The Mosaic Art, 3rd edition, page 312:",
"text": "Do you recall this question having been put to you—the shylocking business you were involved in continued right up until the time that you were arrested, correct?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest."
],
"links": [
[
"money",
"money"
],
[
"exorbitant",
"exorbitant"
],
[
"interest",
"interest"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, US) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃaɪlɑk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃaɪlɒk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-shylock.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/En-au-shylock.ogg/En-au-shylock.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-au-shylock.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "woekerlenen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "kiskoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "periä kiskurikorkoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "harjoittaa koronkiskontaa"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "ågre"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "ågre"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "ta ockerränta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to lend at exorbitant rates",
"word": "ockra"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"The Merchant of Venice"
],
"word": "shylock"
}
Download raw JSONL data for shylock meaning in English (6.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). 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.