<animal>
→
police officer
11 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | pig | |
| meaning 1 | pig (Sus scrofa) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | police officer | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Finnish | |
| lexeme | sika | |
| meaning 1 | pig | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (derogatory, slang) police officer | |
| reference | Kielitoimiston sanakirja | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | vache | |
| meaning 1 | cow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | police officer | Le verbalisme, c'est toujours la pensée des autres. L'on appelle mots les idées dont on veut pas, comme on appelle vaches les sergents de ville, et vautour son propriétaire (Paulhan, Fleurs Tarbes, 1941, p. 120). Pour lui, toute insulte revêtait nécessairement la forme traditionnelle, régulière, consacrée, rituelle et pour ainsi dire liturgique de « morts aux vaches! » (...) Ah? Vous avez dit: « Mort aux vaches! » C'est bon. Suivez-moi (A. France, Crainquebille, 1904, p. 19). Agent de police se déplaçant à bicyclette. Des agents cyclistes arrivaient par pelotons. Pluche brailla: − Voilà les vaches à roulettes: Louise le fit taire (Dabit, Hôtel Nord, 1929, p. 196). |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Bulle | |
| meaning 1 | bull | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (derogatory, often swear word) police officer | |
| reference | DWDS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Khmer | |
| lexeme | tmaat | |
| meaning 1 | generic term for several kinds of vulture including the white-backed vulture (Pseudogyps bengalensis) and poss. the long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (slang) police | |
| reference | SEAlang Khmer | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | arenque | |
| meaning 1 | herring | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (República Dominicana, informal) police officer | |
| reference | Narumov 1995 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | tecolote | |
| meaning 1 | (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, New Mexico) owl | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (colloquial, dated, Mexico) policeman | |
| reference | Narumov 1995 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | puerco | |
| meaning 1 | pig (Sus scrofa) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | police officer | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme 1 | zorro | |
| lexeme 2 | zorro gris | |
| meaning 1 | fox (Vulpes vulpes) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | municipal agent in charge of controlling compliance with traffic regulations | |
| reference | DAMER | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Yuwaalaraay | |
| lexeme | maliyan | |
| meaning 1 | wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | policeman | |
| reference | Ash et al. 2003: 106 | |
| comment | Also 'long-necked turtle (Chelodina longicollis)' |
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