"stonewaller" meaning in English

See stonewaller in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: stonewallers [plural]
Etymology: stonewall + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|stonewall|er}} stonewall + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} stonewaller (plural stonewallers)
  1. One who stonewalls.
    Sense id: en-stonewaller-en-noun-quqfbCiG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for stonewaller meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "stonewall",
        "3": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "stonewall + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "stonewall + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stonewallers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stonewaller (plural stonewallers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "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 -er",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 26, Ginia Bellafante, “The Medium, the Message, the Drama of TV’s Q & A”, in New York Times",
          "text": "Much of the drama of “Frost/Nixon” rests on the idea that Nixon was a consummate stonewaller and Mr. Frost a glitz-hound and possible nincompoop, incapable of the obduracy required for such a reportorial effort.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who stonewalls."
      ],
      "id": "en-stonewaller-en-noun-quqfbCiG",
      "links": [
        [
          "stonewall",
          "stonewall"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stonewaller"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "stonewall",
        "3": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "stonewall + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "stonewall + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stonewallers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stonewaller (plural stonewallers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -er",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 26, Ginia Bellafante, “The Medium, the Message, the Drama of TV’s Q & A”, in New York Times",
          "text": "Much of the drama of “Frost/Nixon” rests on the idea that Nixon was a consummate stonewaller and Mr. Frost a glitz-hound and possible nincompoop, incapable of the obduracy required for such a reportorial effort.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who stonewalls."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stonewall",
          "stonewall"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stonewaller"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.