"who's 'she', the cat's mother" meaning in English

See who's 'she', the cat's mother in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

Forms: Who's 'she' [canonical], the cat's mother [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|en|phrase|head=Who's 'she', the cat's mother?}} Who's 'she', the cat's mother?
  1. (idiomatic, somewhat dated, Britain, Ireland, New England) A rebuke especially directed towards children for having referred to a woman as "she", instead of using her name or an appropriately respectful title. Tags: Britain, Ireland, New-England, dated, idiomatic Categories (topical): English rhetorical questions

Download JSON data for who's 'she', the cat's mother meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Who's 'she'",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the cat's mother",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "Who's 'she', the cat's mother?"
      },
      "expansion": "Who's 'she', the cat's mother?",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English rhetorical questions",
          "parents": [
            "Rhetorical questions",
            "Idioms",
            "Questions",
            "Sentences",
            "Figures of speech",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Rhetoric",
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New England English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "\"She's coming on the trip with us too!\""
        },
        {
          "text": "\"Who's 'she', the cat's mother?\""
        },
        {
          "text": "Sorry, Gran is coming with us too."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rebuke especially directed towards children for having referred to a woman as \"she\", instead of using her name or an appropriately respectful title."
      ],
      "id": "en-who's_'she',_the_cat's_mother-en-phrase-OA8BKulD",
      "links": [
        [
          "rebuke",
          "rebuke#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, somewhat dated, Britain, Ireland, New England) A rebuke especially directed towards children for having referred to a woman as \"she\", instead of using her name or an appropriately respectful title."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Britain",
        "Ireland",
        "New-England",
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "who's 'she', the cat's mother"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Who's 'she'",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the cat's mother",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "Who's 'she', the cat's mother?"
      },
      "expansion": "Who's 'she', the cat's mother?",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrases",
        "English rhetorical questions",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Irish English",
        "New England English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "\"She's coming on the trip with us too!\""
        },
        {
          "text": "\"Who's 'she', the cat's mother?\""
        },
        {
          "text": "Sorry, Gran is coming with us too."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rebuke especially directed towards children for having referred to a woman as \"she\", instead of using her name or an appropriately respectful title."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rebuke",
          "rebuke#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, somewhat dated, Britain, Ireland, New England) A rebuke especially directed towards children for having referred to a woman as \"she\", instead of using her name or an appropriately respectful title."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Britain",
        "Ireland",
        "New-England",
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "who's 'she', the cat's mother"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). 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.