See thigh-slapper in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "forms": [ { "form": "thigh-slappers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "thigh-slapper (plural thigh-slappers)", "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": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Dutch translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with French translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with German translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1980 September 29, Roger Rosenblatt, “The People's Analyst”, in Time, retrieved 2009-10-18:", "text": "Not exactly a thigh-slapper, but not terrible for a psychiatrist joke either.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003 July 29, Lenore Skenazy, “Bob Hope's Jokes Just Lived For the Moment”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2009-10-18:", "text": "\"There's a lot of USO girls in Hollywood,\" Hope mused on his World War II tours. \"USO - Use Slacks Only.\" Ho ho ho. Women wearing pants. Real thigh-slapper.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous." ], "id": "en-thigh-slapper-en-noun-n1rZS896", "links": [ [ "joke", "joke" ], [ "humorous", "humorous" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) A joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "knee slapper" }, { "word": "thigh slapper" } ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "translations": [ { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "dijenkletser" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "word": "hulvaton vitsi" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "blague désopilante" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "blague à se tordre de rire" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Schenkelklopfer" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-thigh-slapper.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/62/En-au-thigh-slapper.ogg/En-au-thigh-slapper.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/En-au-thigh-slapper.ogg" } ], "word": "thigh-slapper" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "thigh-slappers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "thigh-slapper (plural thigh-slappers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English idioms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Dutch translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with French translations", "Terms with German translations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1980 September 29, Roger Rosenblatt, “The People's Analyst”, in Time, retrieved 2009-10-18:", "text": "Not exactly a thigh-slapper, but not terrible for a psychiatrist joke either.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003 July 29, Lenore Skenazy, “Bob Hope's Jokes Just Lived For the Moment”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2009-10-18:", "text": "\"There's a lot of USO girls in Hollywood,\" Hope mused on his World War II tours. \"USO - Use Slacks Only.\" Ho ho ho. Women wearing pants. Real thigh-slapper.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous." ], "links": [ [ "joke", "joke" ], [ "humorous", "humorous" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) A joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous." ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-thigh-slapper.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/62/En-au-thigh-slapper.ogg/En-au-thigh-slapper.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/En-au-thigh-slapper.ogg" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "knee slapper" }, { "word": "thigh slapper" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "dijenkletser" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "word": "hulvaton vitsi" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "blague désopilante" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "blague à se tordre de rire" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "particularly humorous joke", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Schenkelklopfer" } ], "word": "thigh-slapper" }
Download raw JSONL data for thigh-slapper meaning in English (2.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (94ba7e1 and 5dea2a6). 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.