"throttlebottom" meaning in English

See throttlebottom in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: throttlebottoms [plural]
Etymology: From the book Of Thee I Sing, by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, in which Mr. Alexander Throttlebottom runs for vice-president of the United States. Head templates: {{en-noun}} throttlebottom (plural throttlebottoms)
  1. (derogatory) An incompetent holder of a public office. Wikipedia link: Of Thee I Sing Tags: derogatory Translations (incompetent public officer): turhapuro (Finnish)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From the book Of Thee I Sing, by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, in which Mr. Alexander Throttlebottom runs for vice-president of the United States.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "throttlebottoms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "throttlebottom (plural throttlebottoms)",
      "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 Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 June 1, Susan Edsall, Into the Blue: A Father's Flight and a Daughter's Return, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[...] to puzzle through the plans for their current project, rehash a controversy on the airport board, growl about some throttlebottom at city hall [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incompetent holder of a public office."
      ],
      "id": "en-throttlebottom-en-noun-6wgegq04",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "incompetent",
          "incompetent"
        ],
        [
          "public office",
          "public office"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) An incompetent holder of a public office."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "incompetent public officer",
          "word": "turhapuro"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Of Thee I Sing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "throttlebottom"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From the book Of Thee I Sing, by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, in which Mr. Alexander Throttlebottom runs for vice-president of the United States.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "throttlebottoms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "throttlebottom (plural throttlebottoms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Finnish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 June 1, Susan Edsall, Into the Blue: A Father's Flight and a Daughter's Return, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[...] to puzzle through the plans for their current project, rehash a controversy on the airport board, growl about some throttlebottom at city hall [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incompetent holder of a public office."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "incompetent",
          "incompetent"
        ],
        [
          "public office",
          "public office"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) An incompetent holder of a public office."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Of Thee I Sing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "incompetent public officer",
      "word": "turhapuro"
    }
  ],
  "word": "throttlebottom"
}

Download raw JSONL data for throttlebottom meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.