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447 lines
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{
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"fud":{
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"antonyms":[
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"hipster",
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"modern",
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"trendy"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an old-fashioned, unimaginative, or pompous person : fuddy-duddy":[
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"\u2026 he thinks the old man is a plodder\u2014a fud who never had the nerve to go anywhere or do anything.",
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"\u2014 Pauline Kael",
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"\u2026 a public figure whose private, one-on-one or small-group personality was \u2026 startlingly different from the fud that is projected on television.",
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"\u2014 Meg Greenfield",
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"She greeted Pug with just enough deference to acknowledge that he was Warren's father, and just enough sparkle to hint that he was no old fud for all that, but an attractive man himself.",
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"\u2014 Herman Wouk"
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],
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"fear, uncertainty, doubt":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"a stagnant company that has been run by some old fuds for far too long",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"On Telegram accounts, repeat fud spreaders are booted out. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Aug. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1913, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8f\u0259d"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"antediluvian",
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"Colonel Blimp",
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"dodo",
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"fogy",
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"fogey",
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"fossil",
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"fuddy-duddy",
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"mossback",
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"reactionary",
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"stick-in-the-mud",
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"stuffed shirt"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011940",
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"type":[
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"abbreviation",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"fuddle":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": booze , tipple":[],
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": to make confused : muddle":[
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"corridors, archways, recesses \u2026 combined to fuddle any sense of direction",
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"\u2014 Elizabeth Bowen"
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],
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": to make drunk : intoxicate":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"the hotel staff is completely fuddled by the guest's request for a dozen pillows",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In colliding with a new type of animal, a chemical that might once have served to fuddle the wits of pests has been transformed into a glittering lure. \u2014 Gareth Cook, Scientific American , 24 June 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1588, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
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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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"\u02c8f\u0259-d\u1d4al"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"addle",
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"baffle",
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"bamboozle",
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"beat",
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"befog",
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"befuddle",
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"bemuse",
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"bewilder",
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"buffalo",
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"confound",
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"confuse",
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"discombobulate",
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"disorient",
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"flummox",
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"fox",
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"get",
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"gravel",
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"maze",
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"muddle",
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"muddy",
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"mystify",
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"perplex",
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"pose",
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"puzzle",
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"vex"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072641",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"fuddy-duddy":{
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"antonyms":[
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"hipster",
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"modern",
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"trendy"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": one that is old-fashioned, unimaginative, or conservative":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1868, in the meaning defined above":""
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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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"\u02c8f\u0259-d\u0113-\u02ccd\u0259-d\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"antediluvian",
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"Colonel Blimp",
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"dodo",
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"fogy",
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"fogey",
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"fossil",
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"fud",
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"mossback",
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"reactionary",
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"stick-in-the-mud",
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"stuffed shirt"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073852",
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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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"fudge":{
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"antonyms":[
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"applesauce",
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"balderdash",
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"baloney",
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"boloney",
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"beans",
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"bilge",
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"blah",
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"blah-blah",
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"blarney",
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"blather",
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"blatherskite",
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"blither",
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"bosh",
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"bull",
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"bunk",
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"bunkum",
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"buncombe",
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"claptrap",
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"codswallop",
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"crapola",
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"crock",
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"drivel",
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"drool",
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"fiddle",
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"fiddle-faddle",
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"fiddlesticks",
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"flannel",
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"flapdoodle",
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"folderol",
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"falderal",
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"folly",
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"foolishness",
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"garbage",
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"guff",
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"hogwash",
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"hokeypokey",
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"hokum",
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"hoodoo",
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"hooey",
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"horsefeathers",
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"humbug",
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"humbuggery",
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"jazz",
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"malarkey",
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"malarky",
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"moonshine",
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"muck",
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"nerts",
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"nonsense",
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"nuts",
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"piffle",
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"poppycock",
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"punk",
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"rot",
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"rubbish",
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"senselessness",
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"silliness",
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"slush",
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"stupidity",
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"taradiddle",
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"tarradiddle",
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"tommyrot",
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"tosh",
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"trash",
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"trumpery",
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"twaddle"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a soft creamy candy made typically of sugar, milk, butter, and flavoring":[],
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": falsify":[
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"fudged the figures"
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],
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": foolish nonsense":[
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"\u2014 often used interjectionally to express annoyance, disappointment, or disbelief"
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],
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": to avoid commitment : hedge":[
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"the government's tendency to fudge on delicate matters of policy",
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"\u2014 Claire Sterling"
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],
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": to devise as a substitute : fake":[],
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": to fail to come to grips with : dodge":[
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"fudged the issue"
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],
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": to fail to perform as expected":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"Politicians have been known to fudge the issues.",
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"The treasurer fudged the figures.",
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"It was later discovered that the researchers had fudged their data.",
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"Noun",
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"We bought three kinds of fudge .",
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"His response to these charges has been a series of denials and fudges .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"Don\u2019t fudge your college major or minor, any of your certifications or degrees, or relevant work experience. \u2014 Fortune , 1 June 2022",
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"When former state health department employee Rebekah Jones claimed she was fired for refusing to fudge state Covid data to support the state\u2019s reopening in spring 2020, national and local media outlets reported her allegations as fact. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
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"The complexity of food and consumers\u2019 bandwidth for information prompts most brands to fudge the facts with ambiguity and toothless terminology. \u2014 Erik Oberholtzer, Rolling Stone , 18 Apr. 2022",
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"Perhaps the White House will try to fudge the issue or water down the proposal, but its basic stance is untenable and shows. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 4 Mar. 2022",
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"There were fewer new drugs approved because researchers could no longer fudge the data. \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2022",
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"Alternately, perhaps some future Treasury Secretary will persuade Europeans (and other governments) to fudge their interpretations of their own laws to suit political reality in Washington. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 10 Jan. 2022",
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"Acosta-C\u00f3rdova views the air quality ordinance as essentially theater, the environmental impact assessments as work companies can fudge to deflect community criticism. \u2014 Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com , 15 Dec. 2021",
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"History has taught us that people don\u2019t typically fudge numbers unless there are compelling reasons\u2013and there are plenty of compelling reasons to misstate ESG efforts. \u2014 Fortune , 22 Nov. 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"The literary equivalent of a hot fudge sundae for me would be dishy books about Hollywood. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
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"Somewhat wild aromas with dark fudge and green grass. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
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"Egly said the zingers, doughnuts topped with raspberry jelly and coconut cream filling, and tiger tails, doughnuts rolled with chocolate fudge to look like a tiger's tail, are particularly popular. \u2014 Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal , 11 Nov. 2021",
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"The Litchfield Candy Company has some fun with its fudge flavors. \u2014 Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant , 16 June 2022",
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"One readers likely recommended for the kids menu including a pork or beef BBQ plate, or the homemade desserts like lemon ice box pie, chocolate fudge pie, banana pudding and peanut butter pie. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 7 June 2022",
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"At some point in January between pints of chocolate chip cookie dough and double fudge swirl, Uiagalelei decided enough was enough. \u2014 Todd Shanesy, USA TODAY , 6 June 2022",
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"In 1960, Callewaert and Ryba opened their first fudge operation in a storefront on Mackinac Island. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 10 May 2022",
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"Among them are, per CNN: Fudgeamentals of Melville, New York, is recalling fudge made with Jif. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 27 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1674, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
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"1766, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"origin unknown":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8f\u0259j"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"equivocate",
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"hedge",
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"pussyfoot",
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"tergiversate",
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"waffle",
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"weasel"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220339",
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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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"fudge factor":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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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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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Everything else \u2014 the excess energy from the byzantine quantum effects and nonlocal interactions \u2014 went into the second half: a fudge factor known as the exchange and correlation functional. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 7 Feb. 2022",
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"Over the following decades, scientists built on Kohn and Sham\u2019s work with increasingly clever ways of estimating the fudge factor , and density functionals became the de facto way to understand electrons. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 7 Feb. 2022",
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"The US Environmental Protection Agency's test averages almost twice that, but then gets subjected to a fudge factor that heavily penalizes some while flattering others. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 31 Aug. 2020",
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"This has led to a fudge factor in the literature \u2014 guesstimates that 10% of the micrometeoroidal matter sticks to the ice and pollutes it. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 26 Nov. 2019",
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"This part of her plan should be treated as a fudge factor and statement of political positioning, nothing more. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 7 Nov. 2019",
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"Add in a fudge factor of another 20 miles, and searchers ended up with a search box that stretched 40 nautical miles on either side of the final ping arc. \u2014 Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics , 22 July 2016",
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"The hope is to string together results from different size scales in a way that minimizes the need for fudge factors , researchers say. \u2014 Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS , 30 May 2018",
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"The work on counting universes arose from an effort to understand a fudge factor known as the cosmological constant, an antigravitational force associated with empty space that Einstein invented in 1917 to explain why the universe was stable. \u2014 Dennis Overbye, New York Times , 7 Feb. 2018"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1962, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183758"
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},
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"fudger":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a worker in a shoe factory who finishes the edge of a sole":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8f\u0259j\u0259(r)"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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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":"20220709-052229"
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},
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"fudge wheel":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a tool used in shoe manufacturing to ornament the edge of a sole or welt in imitation of welt stitching":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-055553"
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},
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"Fudgsicle":{
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"type":[
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"trademark"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8f\u0259j-\u02ccsi-k\u0259l",
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"-s\u0259-"
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],
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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":"20220709-063218"
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},
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"fudge edge":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": a shoe sole or sole edge stitched and trimmed very close to the upper":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-053137"
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},
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"fudge box":{
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"definitions":{
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": the metal container in a newspaper printing press for holding fudge matter":[],
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": newspaper space left blank for the insertion of last-minute items":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-120332"
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"FUD":{
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"type":[
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"abbreviation",
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": an old-fashioned, unimaginative, or pompous person : fuddy-duddy":[
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"\u2026 he thinks the old man is a plodder\u2014a fud who never had the nerve to go anywhere or do anything.",
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"\u2014 Pauline Kael",
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"\u2026 a public figure whose private, one-on-one or small-group personality was \u2026 startlingly different from the fud that is projected on television.",
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"\u2014 Meg Greenfield",
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"She greeted Pug with just enough deference to acknowledge that he was Warren's father, and just enough sparkle to hint that he was no old fud for all that, but an attractive man himself.",
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"\u2014 Herman Wouk"
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],
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"fear, uncertainty, doubt":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8f\u0259d"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"antediluvian",
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"Colonel Blimp",
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"dodo",
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"fogy",
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"fogey",
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"fossil",
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"fuddy-duddy",
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"mossback",
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"reactionary",
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"stick-in-the-mud",
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"stuffed shirt"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"hipster",
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"modern",
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"trendy"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"a stagnant company that has been run by some old fuds for far too long",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"On Telegram accounts, repeat fud spreaders are booted out. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Aug. 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1913, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-145922"
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} |