dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/lug_MW.json
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{
"lug":{
"antonyms":[
"drive",
"propel",
"push"
],
"definitions":{
": a big clumsy fellow":[],
": a leather loop on a harness saddle through which the shaft passes":[],
": a metal fitting to which electrical wires are soldered or connected":[],
": a nut used to secure a wheel on an automotive vehicle":[],
": a ridge (as on the bottom of a shoe) to increase traction":[],
": a shipping container for produce":[],
": an act of lugging":[],
": an exaction of money":[
"\u2014 used in the phrase put the lug on"
],
": an ordinary commonplace person":[],
": drag , pull":[],
": ear":[],
": lugsail":[],
": something (such as a handle) that projects like an ear: such as":[],
": something that is lugged":[],
": superior airs or affectations":[
"put on lugs"
],
": to carry laboriously":[
"lugged the bags to the car"
],
": to introduce in a forced manner":[
"lugs my name into the argument"
],
": to move heavily or by jerks":[
"the car lugs on hills"
],
": to pull with effort : tug":[],
": to swerve from the course toward or away from the inside rail":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"She had to lug her suitcases out to the car by herself.",
"I was lugging a heavy camera around all day."
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English (Scots) lugge , perhaps from Middle English luggen":"Noun",
"Middle English luggen to pull by the hair or ear, drag, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian lugga to pull by the hair":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u0259g"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"drag",
"draw",
"hale",
"haul",
"pull",
"tow",
"tug"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-115405",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lugubrious":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": dismal":[
"a lugubrious landscape",
"lugubrious cello music"
]
},
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"also -\u02c8gy\u00fc-",
"lu\u0307-\u02c8g\u00fc-br\u0113-\u0259s"
],
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"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
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"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"a comic actor known for his lugubrious manner",
"the diner's dim lighting makes eating there a particularly lugubrious experience",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Wall Street\u2019s lugubrious mood dragged into Friday, with the major U.S. indexes on track to extend their losses a day after registering their steepest slump since the beginning of the pandemic. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"The boom-and-bust border economy birthed a lugubrious landscape where homes suffer water shortages and bodies of missing persons turn up. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Black Milk\u2019s lugubrious boom-bap also scores the group\u2019s commentary on our pandemic present and pro-marijuana rhetoric informed by their respective forays into the cannabis industry. \u2014 Max Bell, SPIN , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Another facet of the exhibit featured a section on its rather lugubrious -looking, brooding Romanesque Revival red-brick headquarters at Calvert and Redwood streets. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com , 16 Mar. 2022",
"So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout. \u2014 WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
"So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout. \u2014 WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
"This alternately playful and lugubrious work of reflection isn\u2019t really about the controversial Italian writer\u2019s life at all, but rather his legacy, and in a less literal yet ineluctable sense, that of film directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 15 Feb. 2022",
"So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout. \u2014 WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin lugubris , from lug\u0113re to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful":""
},
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"1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-105808"
},
"lugubriously":{
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"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
],
"definitions":{
": dismal":[
"a lugubrious landscape",
"lugubrious cello music"
]
},
"examples":[
"a comic actor known for his lugubrious manner",
"the diner's dim lighting makes eating there a particularly lugubrious experience",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Wall Street\u2019s lugubrious mood dragged into Friday, with the major U.S. indexes on track to extend their losses a day after registering their steepest slump since the beginning of the pandemic. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"The boom-and-bust border economy birthed a lugubrious landscape where homes suffer water shortages and bodies of missing persons turn up. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Black Milk\u2019s lugubrious boom-bap also scores the group\u2019s commentary on our pandemic present and pro-marijuana rhetoric informed by their respective forays into the cannabis industry. \u2014 Max Bell, SPIN , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Another facet of the exhibit featured a section on its rather lugubrious -looking, brooding Romanesque Revival red-brick headquarters at Calvert and Redwood streets. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com , 16 Mar. 2022",
"So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout. \u2014 WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
"So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout. \u2014 WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
"This alternately playful and lugubrious work of reflection isn\u2019t really about the controversial Italian writer\u2019s life at all, but rather his legacy, and in a less literal yet ineluctable sense, that of film directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 15 Feb. 2022",
"So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout. \u2014 WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022"
],
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"1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Latin lugubris , from lug\u0113re to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful":""
},
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"also -\u02c8gy\u00fc-",
"lu\u0307-\u02c8g\u00fc-br\u0113-\u0259s"
],
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"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
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"type":[
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"adverb",
"noun"
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"noun"
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi laga\u1e5b, lagu\u1e5b":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174251"
},
"lugger":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small fishing or coasting boat that carries one or more lugsails":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0259-g\u0259r"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The upshot will be a mid-sized load- lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly. \u2014 Michael Taylor, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger , trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes. \u2014 Ann Benoit, NOLA.com , 27 Oct. 2017"
],
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"lugsail":""
},
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"1757, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220116"
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"noun"
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": baggage car":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010954"
},
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a small wooden pail or dish with a handle":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0259gi"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"lug entry 4 + -ie":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044232"
},
"luggage tan":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a variable color averaging a strong brown that is yellower, lighter, and slightly less strong than average russet, yellower and paler than rust, and yellower, stronger, and slightly lighter than gold brown":[]
},
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},
"lug hook":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a device consisting of a pair of pointed dogs pivoted at the middle of a short bar for carrying small logs or railroad ties":[]
},
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"probably from lug entry 2":""
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"noun"
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": a frame on the roof of a car for carrying luggage":[]
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"geographical name"
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"province of northwestern Spain in northeastern Galicia on the Bay of Biscay area 3785 square miles (9803 square kilometers), population 348,067":[],
"commune and capital of the province of Lugo population 98,001":[]
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"\u02c8l\u00fc-(\u02cc)g\u014d"
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},
"lug pole":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a pole on which a kettle is hung in a fireplace":[]
},
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"lug entry 1":""
},
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"noun"
],
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"\u02c8l\u0259-gij"
],
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"examples":[
"Passengers are limited to two items of carry-on luggage .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The engraved luggage tag is crafted to look elegant while being durable. \u2014 Robin Raven, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"After carefully placing her on a stretcher, volunteers carried her down five flights of stairs, while her husband followed behind with a few pieces of luggage . \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
"Midway International Airport as a ramp-agent supervisor, overseeing the loading and unloading of luggage onto and off planes. \u2014 Greg Stohr, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"There's nothing classier than a quality leather piece of luggage \u2014 which is why the Amerileather Three Suit Garment Bag will keep you traveling in serious style. \u2014 Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure , 6 May 2022",
"The video shows a man, wearing a reflective vest, wheeling a piece of luggage down the street and carrying a bag. \u2014 Alex Sundby, Jordan Freiman, CBS News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The woman with the extra luggage tag was Bridgette. \u2014 CNN , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Krynska coordinated finding people to deliver 25 pieces of luggage packed with medical supplies to the Khmelnytskyi Military Hospital in western Ukraine. \u2014 Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Almost all the cars in this photo carry women & children only, most without any sign of luggage , and a car their only possession of value. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 5 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1595, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-215934"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having no luggage":[]
},
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"-l\u0259\u0307s"
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-040155"
},
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"noun",
"verb"
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],
": to introduce in a forced manner":[
"lugs my name into the argument"
],
": to pull with effort : tug":[],
": to move heavily or by jerks":[
"the car lugs on hills"
],
": to swerve from the course toward or away from the inside rail":[],
": an act of lugging":[],
": something that is lugged":[],
": a shipping container for produce":[],
": lugsail":[],
": superior airs or affectations":[
"put on lugs"
],
": an exaction of money":[
"\u2014 used in the phrase put the lug on"
],
": something (such as a handle) that projects like an ear: such as":[],
": a leather loop on a harness saddle through which the shaft passes":[],
": a metal fitting to which electrical wires are soldered or connected":[],
": ear":[],
": a ridge (as on the bottom of a shoe) to increase traction":[],
": a nut used to secure a wheel on an automotive vehicle":[],
": a big clumsy fellow":[],
": an ordinary commonplace person":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0259g"
],
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"drag",
"draw",
"hale",
"haul",
"pull",
"tow",
"tug"
],
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"drive",
"propel",
"push"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"Verb",
"She had to lug her suitcases out to the car by herself.",
"I was lugging a heavy camera around all day."
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English luggen to pull by the hair or ear, drag, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian lugga to pull by the hair":"Verb",
"Middle English (Scots) lugge , perhaps from Middle English luggen":"Noun"
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-142326"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a bolt terminating in a long flat extension or hook instead of a head":[],
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},
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"lug entry 4":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-145641"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": paving brick having lugs on one side and one end to control the space between adjacent bricks when laid in a pavement":[]
},
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"lug entry 4":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-104104"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a 4-sided sail bent to an obliquely hanging yard that is hoisted and lowered with the sail":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0259g-\u02ccs\u0101l",
"-s\u0259l"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps from lug entry 3":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1677, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-201923"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a genus ( Arenicola ) of marine polychaete worms that have a row of tufted gills along each side of the back and are used for bait":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0259g-\u02ccw\u0259rm"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The lugworm , a slimy red-tinged critter that is often used as fishing bait, can be found on beaches across the British Isles and northwest Europe. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 25 Oct. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1802, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-204855"
},
"lug sole":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a thick rubber sole that has deep indentations in a pattern designed to provide good footing and is used on sport and work shoes":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"lug entry 4":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-024556"
},
"lug chair":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": wing chair":[]
},
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"lug entry 4":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-025412"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the Bantu language of the Ganda people":[]
},
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"l\u00fc-\u02c8g\u00e4n-d\u0259",
"-\u02c8gan-"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1889, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-030255"
},
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"intransitive verb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
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"\u02c8l\u00fczh"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hurtling downhill with skis locked parallel in a deep, slick groove is like the Olympic luge where the only medal is getting to the car without busting your lip on a branch. \u2014 Outside Online , 26 Mar. 2021",
"His winning margin at that World Cup was the biggest luge had seen in nearly eight years, a simply dominant showing. \u2014 Tim Reynolds, courant.com , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Bobsledding, which occurs in an ice chute, like other sliding sports\u2014 luge , skeleton\u2014developed in the late nineteenth century among wealthy lodgers at a ski resort in St. Moritz. \u2014 Sarah Larson, The New Yorker , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Familiarity with a skeleton track, which takes place on the same course as bobsled and luge , is important because each is unique. \u2014 Stu Woo, WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Some events, like the curling and luge have already begun. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The first curling and luge events began on Tuesday, Feb. 2, with alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, and ski jumping getting an early start on Wednesday. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Although the opening ceremony is Friday, action begins Wednesday with curling and luge . \u2014 Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Here\u2019s Jones\u2019s (profane) take on the luge , a high-speed sledding event. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-040613"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a foresail without a boom":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps from lug entry 4":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-041639"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being lugubrious":[]
},
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"-i",
"l\u0259\u02ccg\u00fcbr\u0113\u02c8\u00e4s\u0259t\u0113",
"l\u00fc-",
"-\u0259t\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from lugubrious , after such pairs as English curious, curiosity":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-045153"
},
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"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"commune in Ticino canton , southern Switzerland, on Lake Lugano population 62,800":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"l\u00fc-\u02c8g\u00e4-(\u02cc)n\u014d"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-073047"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a people living along the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo":[],
": a member of such people":[],
": a Central Sudanic language of the Lugbara people":[]
},
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"lu\u0307g\u02c8b\u00e4r\u0259"
],
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