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  "hod":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a coal scuttle":[],
      ": a tray or trough that has a pole handle and that is borne on the shoulder for carrying loads (as of mortar or brick)":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1573, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably from Middle Dutch hodde ; akin to Middle High German hotte cradle":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045933",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hodad":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a nonsurfer who frequents surfing beaches and pretends to be a surfer":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u014d\u02ccdad"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112932",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hodgepodge":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a heterogeneous mixture : jumble":[
        "a hodgepodge of styles"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the exhibit was a hodgepodge of mediocre art, bad art, and really bad art",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The state of the U.S. economy is a hodgepodge of strong data and alarming signals. \u2014 Charley Grant, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
      "At the turn of the 20th century, the United States was a hodgepodge of state divorce laws. \u2014 April White, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
      "There is still no national plan for curbing the spread of the disease, just a hodgepodge of conflicting local and state approaches to everything from shutdowns to masking up. \u2014 Marc Fisher, Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2020",
      "The book is a hodgepodge of short, quirky chapters that cohere as a quasi-narrative because Mr. Reilly structures them around his relationship with his father\u2014which wasn\u2019t at all pretty. \u2014 John Paul Newport, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
      "The event is being organized by a hodgepodge of anti-vaccine groups. \u2014 NBC News , 21 Jan. 2022",
      "The Port of Beirut is overseen by a hodgepodge of government and security agencies with overlapping mandates. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Oct. 2021",
      "The successful escape of Masoud's family is one of countless informal rescue missions put together during the chaotic final days of the US withdrawal by a hodgepodge of current and former US officials with experience in Afghanistan. \u2014 Katie Bo Lillis, CNN , 20 Oct. 2021",
      "The battalion is a hodgepodge , with fighters from all over Ukraine and the world. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of hotchpotch":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4j-\u02ccp\u00e4j"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "agglomerate",
      "agglomeration",
      "alphabet soup",
      "assortment",
      "botch",
      "clutter",
      "collage",
      "crazy quilt",
      "farrago",
      "gallimaufry",
      "grab bag",
      "gumbo",
      "hash",
      "hotchpotch",
      "jambalaya",
      "jumble",
      "jungle",
      "litter",
      "mac\u00e9doine",
      "medley",
      "m\u00e9lange",
      "menagerie",
      "miscellanea",
      "miscellany",
      "mishmash",
      "mixed bag",
      "montage",
      "motley",
      "muddle",
      "olio",
      "olla podrida",
      "omnium-gatherum",
      "pastiche",
      "patchwork",
      "patchwork quilt",
      "potpourri",
      "ragbag",
      "ragout",
      "rummage",
      "salad",
      "salmagundi",
      "scramble",
      "shuffle",
      "smorgasbord",
      "stew",
      "tumble",
      "variety",
      "welter"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022754",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hod carrier":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a laborer employed in carrying supplies to bricklayers, stonemasons, cement finishers, or plasterers on the job":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "During the 1800s, blacks held a variety of jobs, including barber, bartender, hotel bell boy, carriage driver, hod carrier , janitor, laborer, railway postal clerk and undertaker. \u2014 Marylynne Pitz, Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2020",
      "Andy was a hod carrier , charged with carrying supplies to bricklayers. \u2014 Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star , 20 Feb. 2020",
      "Like the West Oak Lane hod carrier who in 1925 whacked his coworker with a bundle of bricks, knocking him through a hole in a roof, 12 feet to the ground below, and into the hereafter. \u2014 Mike Newall, Philly.com , 22 June 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1771, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-211659"
  },
  "hodden":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": coarse cloth of undyed wool":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4d\u1d4an"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-213844"
  },
  "hodden grey":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-231800"
  },
  "hoddle":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": waddle":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4d\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably by alteration":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-002539"
  },
  "hodag":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mythical animal reported chiefly from Wisconsin and Minnesota, noted for its ugliness, lateral horns, and hooked tail, and reputed to be outstanding in both ferocity and melancholy":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u014d\u02ccdag"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-053504"
  },
  "hoddy-doddy":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": garden snail":[],
      ": a snail shell":[],
      ": a short and stout person":[],
      ": a henpecked man":[],
      ": cuckold":[],
      ": fool , blockhead , simpleton":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6h\u00e4d\u0113\u00a6d\u00e4d\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably alteration and reduplication of dodman, hodmadod":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-120332"
  },
  "Hodgkin's disease":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a malignant lymphoma that is characterized by progressive enlargement of lymph nodes, spleen, and liver and by progressive anemia":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4j-kinz-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Thomas Hodgkin \u20201866 English physician":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1865, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-152627"
  },
  "hoddypoll":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a fumbling inept person":[],
      ": cuckold":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "hoddy- (from hoddy-doddy ) + poll":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-160212"
  },
  "hodgkinsonite":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mineral MnZn 2 SiO 5 .H 2 O consisting of a hydrous zinc manganese silicate that occurs in the form of pink to reddish brown crystals":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4jk\u0259\u0307ns\u0259\u02ccn\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "H. H. Hodgkinson American mineralogist + English -ite":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-163949"
  },
  "hodiernal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of this day":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6h\u014dd\u0113\u00a6\u0259rn\u1d4al",
      "\u00a6h\u00e4d-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "obsolete English hodiern hodiernal (from Latin hodiernus , from hodie today, contraction of hoc die this day) + English -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-170245"
  },
  "Hodgkin":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "Dorothy Mary Crowfoot 1910\u20131994 British physicist":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4j-kin"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-171704"
  },
  "hodful":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4d\u02ccfu\u0307l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-175555"
  },
  "hodge":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an English rustic or farm laborer":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4j"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English Hoge , nickname of Roger":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-183919"
  },
  "hodoscope":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an instrument for tracing the paths of ionizing particles by means of ion counters in close array":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4-d\u0259-\u02ccsk\u014dp",
      "\u02c8h\u014d-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek hodos road, path + English -scope":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1933, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-093932"
  },
  "hodograph":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a path described by the extremity of a vector drawn from a fixed origin and representing the linear velocity of a moving point":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u014dd-",
      "-r\u0227f",
      "\u02c8h\u00e4d\u0259\u02ccgraf"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek hodos path + English -graph":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-093933"
  },
  "hodman":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4dm\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "hod entry 1 + man":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-093939"
  },
  "hodmadod":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a snail shell":[],
      ": a deformed or clumsy person":[],
      ": scarecrow":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u00e4dm\u0259\u02ccd\u00e4d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration and reduplication of dodman":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-093943"
  }
}