"yokibus" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Latin -ibus",
      "name": "der"
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "thingumajig"
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      "expansion": "thingumajig",
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  "etymology_text": "From yoke + jocular Latin -ibus. Compare thingumajig.",
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      "expansion": "yokibus (plural not attested)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Jack McQuillan, Dáil Éireann debates, Vol.189 no.1 p.17 cc.16-17 9 May 1961",
          "text": "With your permission, Sir, I propose to have this “yokibus” [\"a badge bearing caricatures and words of a ludicrously stage-Irish nature\"] made available in the Library so every Deputy will have an opportunity of seeing the way this country is being caricatured by the Government."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994 [set in 1929], Hugh Leonard, \"Senna For Sonny\", Plays International, Vol.10 p.38",
          "text": "O'HORAN: (Taking a rise:) You had invented a yokibus, your letter said, that was on a par with p'ison gas."
        }
      ],
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        "A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig."
      ],
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          "thing",
          "thing"
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        [
          "contraption",
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        [
          "thingamajig",
          "thingamajig"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, slang, dated) A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "no-plural",
        "slang"
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  "word": "yokibus"
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
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      },
      "expansion": "Latin -ibus",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "thingumajig"
      },
      "expansion": "thingumajig",
      "name": "m"
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  "etymology_text": "From yoke + jocular Latin -ibus. Compare thingumajig.",
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      "expansion": "yokibus (plural not attested)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1961, Jack McQuillan, Dáil Éireann debates, Vol.189 no.1 p.17 cc.16-17 9 May 1961",
          "text": "With your permission, Sir, I propose to have this “yokibus” [\"a badge bearing caricatures and words of a ludicrously stage-Irish nature\"] made available in the Library so every Deputy will have an opportunity of seeing the way this country is being caricatured by the Government."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994 [set in 1929], Hugh Leonard, \"Senna For Sonny\", Plays International, Vol.10 p.38",
          "text": "O'HORAN: (Taking a rise:) You had invented a yokibus, your letter said, that was on a par with p'ison gas."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig."
      ],
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        ],
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          "thing",
          "thing"
        ],
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        ],
        [
          "contraption",
          "contraption"
        ],
        [
          "thingamajig",
          "thingamajig"
        ]
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        "(Ireland, slang, dated) A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig."
      ],
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  "word": "yokibus"
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