See uffish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Q38082"
},
"expansion": "Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll",
"name": "coin"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll. From its sound; Carroll explained the word as \"a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.\"",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more uffish",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most uffish",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "uffish (comparative more uffish, superlative most uffish)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)",
"text": "And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
19,
25
]
],
"ref": "1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Fourth. The Hunting.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:",
"text": "The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
154,
160
]
],
"ref": "1956, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, Canadian geographical journal, volumes 52-53:",
"text": "Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"grumpy, ill-tempered"
],
"id": "en-uffish-en-adj-HeLOXyig",
"links": [
[
"grumpy",
"grumpy"
],
[
"ill-tempered",
"ill-tempered"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(nonce word) grumpy, ill-tempered"
],
"tags": [
"nonce-word"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "ŭf'ĭsh"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʌfɪʃ/"
}
],
"word": "uffish"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Q38082"
},
"expansion": "Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll",
"name": "coin"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll. From its sound; Carroll explained the word as \"a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.\"",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more uffish",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most uffish",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "uffish (comparative more uffish, superlative most uffish)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English coinages",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nonce terms",
"English terms coined by Lewis Carroll",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)",
"text": "And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
19,
25
]
],
"ref": "1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Fourth. The Hunting.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:",
"text": "The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
154,
160
]
],
"ref": "1956, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, Canadian geographical journal, volumes 52-53:",
"text": "Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"grumpy, ill-tempered"
],
"links": [
[
"grumpy",
"grumpy"
],
[
"ill-tempered",
"ill-tempered"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(nonce word) grumpy, ill-tempered"
],
"tags": [
"nonce-word"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "ŭf'ĭsh"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʌfɪʃ/"
}
],
"word": "uffish"
}
Download raw JSONL data for uffish meaning in English (2.1kB)
{
"called_from": "query_wikidata_json",
"msg": "WIKIDATA QUERY failed",
"path": [
"uffish",
"Template:coin",
"#invoke",
"#invoke",
"Lua:Module:coinage:coinage()"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "",
"title": "uffish",
"trace": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang=\"en\">\n<meta charset=\"utf-8\">\n<title>Wikimedia Error</title>\n<style>\n* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }\nbody { background: #fff; font: 15px/1.6 sans-serif; color: #333; }\n.content { margin: 7% auto 0; padding: 2em 1em 1em; max-width: 640px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; flex-wrap: wrap; }\n.footer { clear: both; margin-top: 14%; border-top: 1px solid #e5e5e5; background: #f9f9f9; padding: 2em 0; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; }\nimg { margin: 0 2em 2em 0; }\na img { border: 0; }\nh1 { margin-top: 1em; font-size: 1.2em; }\n.content-text { flex: 1; }\np { margin: 0.7em 0 1em 0; }\na { color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; }\na:hover { text-decoration: underline; }\ncode { font-family: sans-serif; }\nsummary { font-weight: bold; cursor: pointer; }\ndetails[open] { background: #970302; color: #dfdedd; }\n.text-muted { color: #777; }\n@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {\n a { color: #9e9eff; }\n body { background: transparent; color: #ddd; }\n .footer { border-top: 1px solid #444; background: #060606; }\n #logo { filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg); }\n .text-muted { color: #888; }\n}\n</style>\n<meta name=\"color-scheme\" content=\"light dark\">\n<div class=\"content\" role=\"main\">\n<a href=\"https://www.wikimedia.org\"><img id=\"logo\" src=\"https://www.wikimedia.org/static/images/wmf-logo.png\" srcset=\"https://www.wikimedia.org/static/images/wmf-logo-2x.png 2x\" alt=\"Wikimedia\" width=\"135\" height=\"101\">\n</a>\n<div class=\"content-text\">\n<h1>Error</h1>\n\n<p>Your bot is making too many requests. Please reduce your request rate or contact bot-traffic@wikimedia.org (f263c81)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"footer\"><p>If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.</p><p class=\"text-muted\"><code>Request served via cp3073 cp3073, Varnish XID 199084550<br>Upstream caches: cp3073 int<br>Error: 429, Your bot is making too many requests. Please reduce your request rate or contact bot-traffic@wikimedia.org (f263c81) at Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:33:36 GMT<br><details><summary>Sensitive client information</summary>IP address: 91.207.79.37</details></code></p>\n</div>\n</html>\n"
}
{
"called_from": "query_wikidata_json",
"msg": "WIKIDATA QUERY failed",
"path": [
"uffish",
"Template:coin",
"#invoke",
"#invoke",
"Lua:Module:coinage:coinage()"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "",
"title": "uffish",
"trace": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang=\"en\">\n<meta charset=\"utf-8\">\n<title>Wikimedia Error</title>\n<style>\n* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }\nbody { background: #fff; font: 15px/1.6 sans-serif; color: #333; }\n.content { margin: 7% auto 0; padding: 2em 1em 1em; max-width: 640px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; flex-wrap: wrap; }\n.footer { clear: both; margin-top: 14%; border-top: 1px solid #e5e5e5; background: #f9f9f9; padding: 2em 0; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; }\nimg { margin: 0 2em 2em 0; }\na img { border: 0; }\nh1 { margin-top: 1em; font-size: 1.2em; }\n.content-text { flex: 1; }\np { margin: 0.7em 0 1em 0; }\na { color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; }\na:hover { text-decoration: underline; }\ncode { font-family: sans-serif; }\nsummary { font-weight: bold; cursor: pointer; }\ndetails[open] { background: #970302; color: #dfdedd; }\n.text-muted { color: #777; }\n@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {\n a { color: #9e9eff; }\n body { background: transparent; color: #ddd; }\n .footer { border-top: 1px solid #444; background: #060606; }\n #logo { filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg); }\n .text-muted { color: #888; }\n}\n</style>\n<meta name=\"color-scheme\" content=\"light dark\">\n<div class=\"content\" role=\"main\">\n<a href=\"https://www.wikimedia.org\"><img id=\"logo\" src=\"https://www.wikimedia.org/static/images/wmf-logo.png\" srcset=\"https://www.wikimedia.org/static/images/wmf-logo-2x.png 2x\" alt=\"Wikimedia\" width=\"135\" height=\"101\">\n</a>\n<div class=\"content-text\">\n<h1>Error</h1>\n\n<p>Your bot is making too many requests. Please reduce your request rate or contact bot-traffic@wikimedia.org (f263c81)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"footer\"><p>If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.</p><p class=\"text-muted\"><code>Request served via cp3073 cp3073, Varnish XID 208743005<br>Upstream caches: cp3073 int<br>Error: 429, Your bot is making too many requests. Please reduce your request rate or contact bot-traffic@wikimedia.org (f263c81) at Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:34:31 GMT<br><details><summary>Sensitive client information</summary>IP address: 91.207.79.37</details></code></p>\n</div>\n</html>\n"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). 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.