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"moil",
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"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
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"toil",
"travail",
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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": a volatile narcotic principle present in the husks of beechnuts":[]
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"\u02c8f\u0101\u02ccj\u0113n",
"-j\u0259n"
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"type":[
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"first_known_use":{
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": the fagging system formerly common in English public schools":[]
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"endeavor",
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"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
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"drudge",
"drudger",
"foot soldier",
"grub",
"grubber",
"grunt",
"laborer",
"peon",
"plugger",
"slave",
"slogger",
"toiler",
"worker"
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"see faggot":"Noun"
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"1770, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
"1785, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1806, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"circa 1888, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1921, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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": a family of trees and shrubs (order Fagales ) having the staminate flowers in cymose heads or drooping aments and pistillate flowers with an urn-shaped to oblong perianth that occur singly or in clusters and are succeeded by one-seeded nuts \u2014 see castanea , fagus , quercus":[]
},
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"f\u0259\u02c8g\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-082203"
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": an order of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs distinguished chiefly by the inferior unilocular ovary containing two or more ovules":[]
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