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{
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"Didelphidae":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a family of marsupial mammals comprising the New World opossums":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Didelphis , type genus + -idae":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"d\u012b\u02c8delf\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105350",
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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]
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},
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"didactic":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": designed or intended to teach":[],
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": intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment":[
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"didactic poetry"
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],
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": making moral observations":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Slaves related human as well as animal trickster tales; they told Bible stories, explanatory tales, moralistic and didactic tales, supernatural tales and legends. \u2014 Lawrence W. Levine , The Unpredictable Past , 1993",
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"For two decades, many Americans, including some early advocates of the Vietnam intervention, have been relentlessly didactic , extracting cautionary lessons from Vietnam. \u2014 George F. Will , Newsweek , 22 May 1989",
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"\u2014the trappings, one might say\u2014of a didactic and resolutely pious Victorian sensibility in the service of an anarchic imagination. \u2014 Joyce Carol Oates , The Profane Art , 1983",
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"the poet's works became increasingly didactic after his religious conversion",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Ben and Violet did a fantastic job because the film is not didactic . \u2014 Jennie Punter, Variety , 4 May 2022",
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"In fact, these discussions often feel explicitly targeted at the audience, more didactic and less intimate than the check-ins Guralnik has with Goldner in earlier episodes. \u2014 Lidija Haas, The New Republic , 10 June 2022",
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"Perhaps the most didactic and poignant vignette was conceived by Dash (Daughters of Dust), who made history as the first African American woman to direct a feature film shown in wide release. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 10 May 2022",
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"Barbara Kruger is one of the most influential living artists, having developed an intentionally didactic and cuttingly acute linguistic, graphic, and visual style that has been endlessly copied and commodified. \u2014 Brett Berk, Car and Driver , 3 Apr. 2022",
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"Both directors use the animal to comment on human nature, though Skolimowski is more didactic , including shots of deforestation and a massive manmade dam, whereas Bresson invited a certain ambiguity. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 19 May 2022",
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"The boys \u2014 there are no women in the film except for a young mother who becomes a key plot element later on \u2014 sleep on bunk beds in crammed dorm rooms and spend their days listening to didactic lectures in the mosque\u2019s picturesque courtyard. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
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"But the exhibition has now been recontextualized both to show that Guston was not an inadvertent racist and to provide a didactic cushion for those who might be offended or seriously discomfited by Guston\u2019s late-career imagery of Ku Klux Klansmen. \u2014 Peter Plagens, WSJ , 30 Apr. 2022",
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"Since Subramaniam was named president three years ago, the succession process has been more one of osmosis than didactic dinner meetings. \u2014 Jena Mcgregor, Forbes , 2 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1658, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from New Latin didacticus, borrowed from Greek didaktik\u00f3s \"apt at teaching,\" from didakt\u00f3s \"taught, learned\" (verbal adjective of did\u00e1skein , aorist ed\u00eddaxa \"to teach, instruct,\" factitive derivative of da\u00eanai \"to learn\") + -ikos -ic entry 1 ; da\u00eanai going back to Indo-European *dens-, *dn\u0325s- \"become knowledgeable or skillful,\" whence also Avestan d\u012bdai\u014b\u0301h\u0113 \"(I) learn, experience\" and, in nominal derivatives, Sanskrit d\u00e1\u1e43sa\u1e25 \"marvelous power,\" dasr\u00e1\u1e25 \"accomplishing wonderful deeds,\" and perhaps Greek d\u1e17nea \"plans, intentions\"":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"d\u0259-",
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"d\u012b-\u02c8dak-tik, d\u0259-",
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"d\u012b-\u02c8dak-tik"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"homiletic",
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"homiletical",
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"moralistic",
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"moralizing",
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"preachy",
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"sententious",
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"sermonic"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232351",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"diddle":{
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"antonyms":[
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"barrel",
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"bolt",
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"career",
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"course",
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"dash",
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"fly",
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"hasten",
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"hotfoot (it)",
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"hurry",
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"race",
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"rip",
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"rocket",
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"run",
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"rush",
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"scoot",
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"scud",
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"scurry",
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"speed",
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"tear",
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"whirl",
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"whisk",
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"whiz",
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"whizz",
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"zip"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": dawdle , fool":[],
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": fiddle , toy":[
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"\u2014 usually used with with diddled with the machine until it broke"
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],
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": hoax , swindle":[],
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": to copulate with":[],
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": to move with short rapid motions":[],
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": to waste (time) in trifling":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He had tried to diddle his insurance agency.",
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"She felt she had been diddled out of her inheritance."
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1786, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"origin unknown":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8di-d\u1d4al"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"crawl",
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"creep",
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"dally",
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"dawdle",
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"delay",
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"dillydally",
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"drag",
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"lag",
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"linger",
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"loiter",
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"lollygag",
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"lallygag",
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"mope",
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"poke",
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"shilly-shally",
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"tarry"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090130",
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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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"diddly":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": diddly-squat":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He helped us a lot, but she didn't do diddly .",
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"that jerk doesn't know diddly about half the things he spouts off about"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1964, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8di-d\u1d4al-\u0113",
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"\u02c8did-l\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"beans",
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"bubkes",
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"bupkes",
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"bupkus",
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"continental",
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"damn",
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"darn",
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"durn",
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"diddly-squat",
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"doodley-squat",
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"doodly-squat",
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"fig",
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"ghost",
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"hoot",
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"iota",
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"jot",
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"lick",
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"modicum",
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"rap",
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"squat",
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"syllable",
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"tittle",
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"whit",
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"whoop"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022558",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"diddly-squat":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the least amount : anything at all":[
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"didn't know diddly-squat about sports",
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"\u2014 Sam Toperoff"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1963, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"probably alteration of doodly-squat":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8did-l\u0113-",
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"\u02c8di-d\u1d4al-\u0113-\u02ccskw\u00e4t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"beans",
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"bubkes",
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"bupkes",
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"bupkus",
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"continental",
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"damn",
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"darn",
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"durn",
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"diddly",
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"doodley-squat",
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"doodly-squat",
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"fig",
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"ghost",
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"hoot",
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"iota",
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"jot",
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"lick",
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"modicum",
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"rap",
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"squat",
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"syllable",
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"tittle",
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"whit",
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"whoop"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042919",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"diddy":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": teat":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"alteration of titty":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8didi"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030558",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"diddy box":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":[
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"Definition of diddy box variant of ditty box"
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],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-101513",
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"type":[]
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},
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"didelphian":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": marsupial":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin Didelphia + English -an":"Adjective"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\""
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102116",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"didelphid":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a marsupial of the family Didelphidae or genus Didelphis : opossum":[],
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": of or relating to Didelphidae or to Didelphis or to members of this family or genus":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin Didelphidae":"Adjective"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\"",
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"(\u02c8)d\u012b\u00a6delf\u0259\u0307d"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114305",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"dido":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a legendary queen of Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid who kills herself when Aeneas leaves her":[],
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": a mischievous or capricious act : prank , antic":[
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"\u2014 often used in the phrase cut didoes"
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],
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": something that is frivolous or showy":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun (1)",
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"known for cutting didoes at the holiday party held each year at the office"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1807, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin, from Greek Did\u014d":"Noun",
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"origin unknown":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8d\u012b-(\u02cc)d\u014d"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"antic",
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"caper",
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"capriccio",
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"escapade",
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"frolic",
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"gag",
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"jest",
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"knavery",
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"monkeyshine(s)",
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"practical joke",
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"prank",
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"rag",
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"roguery",
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"shavie",
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"shine(s)",
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"trick",
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"waggery"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070824",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"didymium":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a mixture of rare earth elements made up chiefly of neodymium and praseodymium and used especially for coloring glass for optical filters":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"d\u012b-\u02c8di-m\u0113-\u0259m"
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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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"New Latin, from Greek didymos twin, from dyo two \u2014 more at two":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1842, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142241"
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},
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"didynamous":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun,"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length":[
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"\u2014 used especially of plants of the families Scrophulariaceae and Labiatae"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02c8)d\u012b\u00a6din\u0259m\u0259s"
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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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"New Latin Didynamia + English -ous":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153524"
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},
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"didymo":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a freshwater, microscopic diatom ( Didymosphenia geminata ) typically of cool, nutrient-poor waters of Canada and the northern U.S. and Europe that has become invasive in warmer waters where it forms large, thick brown, yellow, or whitish mats attached to a submerged substrate (such as a rock or plant)":[
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"All visitors, especially boaters and fishermen, are being encouraged to wash their gear in an effort to avoid spreading didymo .",
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"\u2014 Sean Sauro",
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"\u2026 the unpleasant and unwanted freshwater algae, Didymophenia geminata , commonly called didymo , or, with absolutely no trace of affection, rock snot.",
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"\u2014 James Gorman"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8di-d\u0259-\u02ccm\u014d",
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"-d\u0113-"
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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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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Find more information on didymo and how to identify it at michigan.gov/invasives. \u2014 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press , 7 Dec. 2021",
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"Extensive mats of didymo were found on the Michigan side of the St. Marys River near Sault Ste. \u2014 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press , 7 Dec. 2021",
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"According to Michigan State University Extension, didymo is thought to be native to Lake Superior, parts of Canada and Northern Europe. \u2014 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press , 7 Dec. 2021",
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"Mainly because there are so many four-legged and two-legged critters there that like to eat them. Anglers can be their own worst enemies by inadvertently spreading waterborne nuisances such as zebra mussels and didymo with their boats. \u2014 Colin Moore, Outdoor Life , 7 Feb. 2020"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"short for New Latin Didymosphenia , genus name (earlier, name for a subgenus of Gomphonema ), from Greek d\u00eddymos \"double,\" (in plural) \"twins\" + -o- -o- + sph\u1e17n \"wedge\" (of obscure origin) + -ia -ia entry 1 ; so named for the symmetrical wedge-like nodes at each end of the raphe \u2014 more at didymium":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"2005, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161552"
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},
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"didym-":{
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"type":[
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"combining form"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": twin":[
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"didymo lite"
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],
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": testicle":[
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"didym itis"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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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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"Greek, from didymos , from dyo two":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170457"
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},
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"Didynamia":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"plural noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a class of plants including those having flowers with four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccd\u012bd\u0259\u0307\u02c8n\u0101m\u0113\u0259"
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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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"New Latin, from di- + Greek dynamis power + New Latin -ia":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-181833"
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},
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"didn't have the heart":{
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"type":[
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"idiom"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": not do something that might hurt another's feelings":[
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"I just didn't have the heart to tell her that I didn't like her singing."
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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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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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185420"
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},
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"didy":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": diaper sense 2b":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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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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"baby-talk alteration of diaper":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202308"
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},
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"didymolite":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a mineral consisting of a calcium aluminum silicate Ca 2 Al 6 Si 9 O 29 occurring in dark gray monoclinic twinned crystals":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8did\u0259m\u0259\u02ccl\u012bt"
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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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"didym- + -lite":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-224926"
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},
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"didn't":{
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"type":[
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"contraction"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": did not":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"dialectal also \u02c8dit-\u1d4an(t)",
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"\u02c8di-d\u1d4ant",
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"-d\u1d4an",
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"or \u02c8dint"
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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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"first_known_use":{
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"1675, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012012"
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},
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"didiploid":{
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"type":[
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|
"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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|
": an amphidiploid or autotetraploid":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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|
"(\u02c8)d\u012b+"
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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":{
|
|
"di- + diploid":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-214305"
|
|
}
|
|
} |