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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Rhymes:English/æŋki",
"Rhymes:English/æŋki/2 syllables",
"en:Communism",
"en:Leftism",
"en:Marxism",
"en:Military vehicles",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "tank",
"3": "ie"
},
"expansion": "tank + -ie",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "tank + -ie.\nSenses 1 and 2 were named for the tanks used by the Soviet Union against uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "tankie (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"tank‧ie"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "patsoc"
},
{
"word": "campist"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms",
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Politics"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Professing tankie ideologies is frowned upon in this workplace - be warned!",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Supporting the policies of the Soviet Union or other authoritarian socialist governments."
],
"links": [
[
"politics",
"politics"
],
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"Soviet Union",
"Soviet Union"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(politics, slang, derogatory) Supporting the policies of the Soviet Union or other authoritarian socialist governments."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"not-comparable",
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"politics"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/taŋki/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tæŋki/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æŋki"
},
{
"homophone": "tanky"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-tankie.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/87/En-au-tankie.ogg/En-au-tankie.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/En-au-tankie.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "tank soldier, member of the Communist Party of Great Britain",
"word": "tanky"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Central Intelligence Agency",
"Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia"
],
"word": "tankie"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 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.
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