"Rolling Calf" meaning in Jamaican Creole

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈrʷoːlɪn ˈkʲɑːf/ Forms: Roaring Calf [alternative]
Head templates: {{head|jam|proper noun|head=Rolling Calf}} Rolling Calf, {{jam-proper noun|head=Rolling Calf}} Rolling Calf
  1. a calf demon with fiery eyes which makes its presence known by rattling chains Categories (topical): Mythological creatures Categories (lifeform): Cattle Holonyms: duppy Related terms: Blackheart Man
    Sense id: en-Rolling_Calf-jam-name-XjuHJC2B Categories (other): Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Roaring Calf",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "head": "Rolling Calf"
      },
      "expansion": "Rolling Calf",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Rolling Calf"
      },
      "expansion": "Rolling Calf",
      "name": "jam-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Ro‧lling‧Calf"
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "jam",
          "name": "Cattle",
          "orig": "jam:Cattle",
          "parents": [
            "Bovines",
            "Livestock",
            "Even-toed ungulates",
            "Agriculture",
            "Animals",
            "Mammals",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Chordates",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "jam",
          "name": "Mythological creatures",
          "orig": "jam:Mythological creatures",
          "parents": [
            "Fantasy",
            "Mythology",
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Culture",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Society",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "When I was little, my cousins used to tell me not to enter the forest at night, because the calf demon was there.",
          "text": "As a yute, mi cousin dem use fi tell me nuh fi guh a bush a night-time, for Rolling Calf deh a bush.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Now hear this - nobody went there again for months, because as far as they were concerned, a calf demon was on the loose […]",
          "ref": "2020, Simone Morgan-Lindo, “Woman believes demons killed her granddaughter”, in The Jamaica Star (in English):",
          "text": "“And hear this - fi months nuhbaddy nuh walk back desso, because as far as they were concern - a rolling calf was on the loose […]”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a calf demon with fiery eyes which makes its presence known by rattling chains"
      ],
      "holonyms": [
        {
          "word": "duppy"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-Rolling_Calf-jam-name-XjuHJC2B",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Blackheart Man"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈrʷoːlɪn ˈkʲɑːf/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Rolling Calf"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Roaring Calf",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "head": "Rolling Calf"
      },
      "expansion": "Rolling Calf",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Rolling Calf"
      },
      "expansion": "Rolling Calf",
      "name": "jam-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "holonyms": [
    {
      "word": "duppy"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Ro‧lling‧Calf"
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Blackheart Man"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
        "Jamaican Creole lemmas",
        "Jamaican Creole multiword terms",
        "Jamaican Creole proper nouns",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "jam:Cattle",
        "jam:Mythological creatures"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "When I was little, my cousins used to tell me not to enter the forest at night, because the calf demon was there.",
          "text": "As a yute, mi cousin dem use fi tell me nuh fi guh a bush a night-time, for Rolling Calf deh a bush.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Now hear this - nobody went there again for months, because as far as they were concerned, a calf demon was on the loose […]",
          "ref": "2020, Simone Morgan-Lindo, “Woman believes demons killed her granddaughter”, in The Jamaica Star (in English):",
          "text": "“And hear this - fi months nuhbaddy nuh walk back desso, because as far as they were concern - a rolling calf was on the loose […]”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a calf demon with fiery eyes which makes its presence known by rattling chains"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈrʷoːlɪn ˈkʲɑːf/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Rolling Calf"
}

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