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220 lines
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{
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"yowl":{
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"antonyms":[
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"cry",
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"holler",
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"hoot",
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"howl",
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"shout",
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"whoop",
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"yell"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a loud long mournful wail or howl (as of a cat)":[],
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": to complain or protest with or as if with yowls":[],
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": to express with yowling":[],
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": to utter a loud long cry of grief, pain, or distress : wail":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"The cat was yowling outside.",
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"He was yowling in pain.",
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"Noun",
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"the cat gave a yowl of anger",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"In normal times, life in any city means a constant barrage of sounds: car horns, yowling cats, heated arguments from windows overhead\u2014often over inconsequential things. \u2014 Samer Kalaf, The New Republic , 10 Apr. 2020",
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"Sirens yowled and vents whistled; a motorcycle potato-potato-potatoed and a can skittered on the concrete. \u2014 Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic , 8 Oct. 2019",
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"The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel. \u2014 Michael Powell, New York Times , 31 Oct. 2019",
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"Detuned guitars warble from the corners of songs; the visuals go medieval; the dark lord Ozzy Osbourne yowls one chorus. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 Sep. 2019",
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"Some, at 15, were already fantasizing about marshaling breakfast for whining, barking, yowling households. \u2014 Sarah Ruden, National Review , 22 Aug. 2019",
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"Or your just moved-in, very sweet neighbors with the sick, yowling cat",
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"My normally mild-mannered dog lost her mind, yowling and dancing around the kitchen until someone, anyone, would give her even the smallest morsel of cheese. \u2014 Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit , 26 Apr. 2018",
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"The brown mutts yowled into the blackness of the forest. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 2 Apr. 2018",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Then, a human yowl cuts through with the urgency of a distress signal. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
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"Stop pausing to yowl when a call doesn\u2019t go your way. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
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"The wind rose to a sustained yowl , shredded the treetops, racked the old lean-to, seemed to be swelling toward a terrible end. \u2014 Earl Swift, Outside Online , 2 Sep. 2015",
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"As usual, his instinctive approach and trademark yowl created additional ambiguities: there are ghost words here. \u2014 Brad Shoup, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2022",
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"But, when Yarielis suddenly turned red, opening her mouth in a silent, tearful yowl , the children screamed for their mother to help her. \u2014 Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com , 24 Dec. 2021",
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"The song is a bluesy slow-burner packed with the singer's signature yowl , and is featured prominently in the Season 2 finale of the Juliette Lewis-starring FacebookWatch series Sacred Lies. \u2014 Claire Lobenfeld, EW.com , 9 Apr. 2020",
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"Hearses and Gucci furs and callous relationship advice and desperate questioning all get strung together in drowsy yowls with strikingly logical syntax. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 8 Dec. 2019",
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"Miley Cyrus, in her rodeo yowl on the song, warns some boy to quit it with the pet names. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 5 Nov. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8yau\u0307l",
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"\u02c8yau\u0307(-\u0259)l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"beef",
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"bellyache",
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"bitch",
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"bleat",
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"carp",
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"caterwaul",
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"complain",
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"crab",
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"croak",
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"fuss",
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"gripe",
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"grizzle",
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"grouch",
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"grouse",
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"growl",
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"grumble",
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"grump",
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"holler",
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"inveigh",
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"keen",
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"kick",
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"kvetch",
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"maunder",
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"moan",
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"murmur",
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"mutter",
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"nag",
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"repine",
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"scream",
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"squawk",
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"squeal",
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"wail",
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"whimper",
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"whine",
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"whinge",
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"yammer",
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"yawp",
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"yaup"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053045",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"yowling":{
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"antonyms":[
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"cry",
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"holler",
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"hoot",
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"howl",
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"shout",
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"whoop",
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"yell"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a loud long mournful wail or howl (as of a cat)":[],
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": to complain or protest with or as if with yowls":[],
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": to express with yowling":[],
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": to utter a loud long cry of grief, pain, or distress : wail":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"The cat was yowling outside.",
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"He was yowling in pain.",
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"Noun",
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"the cat gave a yowl of anger",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"In normal times, life in any city means a constant barrage of sounds: car horns, yowling cats, heated arguments from windows overhead\u2014often over inconsequential things. \u2014 Samer Kalaf, The New Republic , 10 Apr. 2020",
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"Sirens yowled and vents whistled; a motorcycle potato-potato-potatoed and a can skittered on the concrete. \u2014 Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic , 8 Oct. 2019",
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"The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel. \u2014 Michael Powell, New York Times , 31 Oct. 2019",
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"Detuned guitars warble from the corners of songs; the visuals go medieval; the dark lord Ozzy Osbourne yowls one chorus. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 Sep. 2019",
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"Some, at 15, were already fantasizing about marshaling breakfast for whining, barking, yowling households. \u2014 Sarah Ruden, National Review , 22 Aug. 2019",
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"Or your just moved-in, very sweet neighbors with the sick, yowling cat",
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"My normally mild-mannered dog lost her mind, yowling and dancing around the kitchen until someone, anyone, would give her even the smallest morsel of cheese. \u2014 Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit , 26 Apr. 2018",
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"The brown mutts yowled into the blackness of the forest. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 2 Apr. 2018",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Then, a human yowl cuts through with the urgency of a distress signal. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
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"Stop pausing to yowl when a call doesn\u2019t go your way. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
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"The wind rose to a sustained yowl , shredded the treetops, racked the old lean-to, seemed to be swelling toward a terrible end. \u2014 Earl Swift, Outside Online , 2 Sep. 2015",
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"As usual, his instinctive approach and trademark yowl created additional ambiguities: there are ghost words here. \u2014 Brad Shoup, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2022",
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"But, when Yarielis suddenly turned red, opening her mouth in a silent, tearful yowl , the children screamed for their mother to help her. \u2014 Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com , 24 Dec. 2021",
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"The song is a bluesy slow-burner packed with the singer's signature yowl , and is featured prominently in the Season 2 finale of the Juliette Lewis-starring FacebookWatch series Sacred Lies. \u2014 Claire Lobenfeld, EW.com , 9 Apr. 2020",
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"Hearses and Gucci furs and callous relationship advice and desperate questioning all get strung together in drowsy yowls with strikingly logical syntax. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 8 Dec. 2019",
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"Miley Cyrus, in her rodeo yowl on the song, warns some boy to quit it with the pet names. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 5 Nov. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8yau\u0307l",
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"\u02c8yau\u0307(-\u0259)l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"beef",
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"bellyache",
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"bitch",
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"bleat",
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"carp",
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"caterwaul",
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"complain",
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"crab",
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"croak",
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"fuss",
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"gripe",
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"grizzle",
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"grouch",
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"grouse",
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"growl",
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"grumble",
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"grump",
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"holler",
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"inveigh",
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"keen",
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"kick",
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"kvetch",
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"maunder",
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"moan",
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"murmur",
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"mutter",
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"nag",
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"repine",
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"scream",
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"squawk",
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"squeal",
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"wail",
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"whimper",
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"whine",
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"whinge",
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"yammer",
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"yawp",
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"yaup"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070422",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"yow":{
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"type":[
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"interjection"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8y\u014d",
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"\u02c8yau\u0307",
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"\""
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English yowe":"Interjection"
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213418"
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}
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} |