See superfly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "0 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "superflies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "superfly (plural superflies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "14 62 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with super-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
54,
62
]
],
"ref": "1973, “Future Shock”, in Back to the World, performed by Curtis Mayfield:",
"text": "Oh, see them passing / See how they're dancing to the superfly",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An ostentatious, self-confident person, especially a black drug dealer."
],
"id": "en-superfly-en-noun-vPEWOVH2",
"links": [
[
"ostentatious",
"ostentatious"
],
[
"self-confident",
"self-confident"
],
[
"black",
"black"
],
[
"drug dealer",
"drug dealer"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superfly.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Super Fly (1972 film)"
],
"word": "superfly"
}
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "0 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more superfly",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most superfly",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "superfly (comparative more superfly, superlative most superfly)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
32,
40
]
],
"ref": "1997, “Sex and Candy”, performed by Marcy Playground:",
"text": "Yeah, there she was, like disco superfly",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
40,
48
]
],
"ref": "2001, “Your Woman Has Just Been Sighted (Ring the Alarm)”, in Music & Me, performed by Nate Dogg ft. Jermaine Dupri:",
"text": "I'm all up in the air, telling her some superfly shit she need to hear",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Excellent, very cool."
],
"id": "en-superfly-en-adj--BXk8hVF",
"links": [
[
"Excellent",
"excellent"
],
[
"cool",
"cool"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) Excellent, very cool."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superfly.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Super Fly (1972 film)"
],
"word": "superfly"
}
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "0 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "super",
"3": "fly"
},
"expansion": "super- + fly",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From super- + fly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "superflies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "superfly (plural superflies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 35 62",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 16 80",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 12 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 4 91",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Dipterans",
"orig": "en:Dipterans",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A fly (insect) with remarkable properties, such as resistance to insecticide."
],
"id": "en-superfly-en-noun-lchIoe~V",
"links": [
[
"fly",
"fly"
],
[
"insecticide",
"insecticide"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superfly.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "superfly"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with super-",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Dipterans",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "superflies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "superfly (plural superflies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
54,
62
]
],
"ref": "1973, “Future Shock”, in Back to the World, performed by Curtis Mayfield:",
"text": "Oh, see them passing / See how they're dancing to the superfly",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An ostentatious, self-confident person, especially a black drug dealer."
],
"links": [
[
"ostentatious",
"ostentatious"
],
[
"self-confident",
"self-confident"
],
[
"black",
"black"
],
[
"drug dealer",
"drug dealer"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superfly.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Super Fly (1972 film)"
],
"word": "superfly"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with super-",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Dipterans",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more superfly",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most superfly",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "superfly (comparative more superfly, superlative most superfly)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
32,
40
]
],
"ref": "1997, “Sex and Candy”, performed by Marcy Playground:",
"text": "Yeah, there she was, like disco superfly",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
40,
48
]
],
"ref": "2001, “Your Woman Has Just Been Sighted (Ring the Alarm)”, in Music & Me, performed by Nate Dogg ft. Jermaine Dupri:",
"text": "I'm all up in the air, telling her some superfly shit she need to hear",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Excellent, very cool."
],
"links": [
[
"Excellent",
"excellent"
],
[
"cool",
"cool"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) Excellent, very cool."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superfly.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Super Fly (1972 film)"
],
"word": "superfly"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with super-",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Dipterans",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "super",
"3": "fly"
},
"expansion": "super- + fly",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From super- + fly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "superflies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "superfly (plural superflies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A fly (insect) with remarkable properties, such as resistance to insecticide."
],
"links": [
[
"fly",
"fly"
],
[
"insecticide",
"insecticide"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superfly.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-superfly.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "superfly"
}
Download raw JSONL data for superfly meaning in English (4.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-20 using wiktextract (cdfa371 and 9905b1f). 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.