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"ref": "1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy",
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"ref": "1999, Alyn Shipton, “Gillespiana”, in Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 293",
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"ref": "2000, Alan H. Levy, Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist, Jefferson, N.C.: London: McFarland & Company, page 241",
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"ref": "2013, William Paul, “No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You (1938)”, in Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf, editors, A Companion to Film Comedy, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, page 280",
"text": "This runs counter to the play, where Grandpa is always benignly indulgent of all his zany progeny and their equally zany spouses, and is even somewhat zany himself.",
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"ref": "2015, Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón, “The Sassy Black Cook and the Return of the Magic Negress: Popular Representations of Black Women's Food Work”, in Jennifer Jensen Wallach, editor, Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama, Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, page 117",
"text": "The montage goes on to show scenes of Carla singing, dancing, meditating, breaking the tension amongst her co-cheftestants with sing-a-longs and “hootie-hoo” lessons, and ultimately wooing the judges with a combination of her zany personality and solid cooking skills.",
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"word": "demenziale"
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"word": "ellevill"
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"text": "Part of the illusory world is the 'quack' or mountebank who can be seen standing on his own special platform in the centre of the crowd[…]. Such a person travelled round to fairs and markets selling his nostrums or medicines. This character is dressed in a lace hat, long periwig and embroidered coat with lace cuffs, and is attended by his zany, who is wearing a chequered harlequin outfit and is 'quacking' or 'puffing' his master's wares. No seventeenth- or eighteenth-century mountebank was complete without his zany or 'Merry Andrew' – a term originally applied to Dr Andrew Boorde, physician to Henry VIII and noted for his ready wit and humour, who was the subject of many broadside ballads.",
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "zanies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "zanying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "zanied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "zanied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "zany (third-person singular simple present zanies, present participle zanying, simple past and past participle zanied)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"za‧ny"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To mimic foolishly."
],
"links": [
[
"mimic",
"mimic"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To mimic foolishly."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈzeɪni/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪni"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-zany.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fe/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-zany.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-zany.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fe/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-zany.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-zany.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Fratellini family",
"Paul Fratellini"
],
"word": "zany"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": buffoonish vs. figljárskij",
"path": [
"zany"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "zany",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": clownish vs. klóunskij",
"path": [
"zany"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "zany",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": comical vs. komíčeskij",
"path": [
"zany"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "zany",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.
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