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{
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"Piffer":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a member of the Punjab Irregular Frontier Force or of a successor regiment":[]
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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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"P unjab I rregular F rontier F orce + -er":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8pif\u0259(r)"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201946",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"pif paf":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a card game played like rummy and bet on like poker":[]
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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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"Portuguese":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8p\u0113f\u02ccp\u00e4f",
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"\u02c8pif\u02ccpaf"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191657",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"piffero":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": fife":[],
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": one of various old Italian wind instruments used by shepherds (as the bagpipe or oboe)":[]
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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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"Italian piffero, piffaro , from Middle High German pf\u012bfer piper, from pf\u012bfe pipe, fife (from Old High German pf\u012bfa ) + -er":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181221",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"piffle":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to talk or act in a trivial, inept, or ineffective way":[],
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": trivial nonsense":[
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"pseudo-scientific piffle"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"His story is complete piffle .",
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"the belief that soda is made out of acid is just piffle",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"The Ritz, a smart London hotel where Margaret Thatcher spent her last days, is in fine fettle, turning a neat annual profit and valued in the region of \u00a3800m\u2014not bad for a property bought for a piffling \u00a375m in 1995. \u2014 The Economist , 31 Oct. 2019",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"The whole story now seems like so much piffle , except for the sons who lost their mother and a princess who lost her life. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 7 Oct. 2021",
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"It\u2019s a not-quite-living imitation of a movie, a self-parody that lacks even a touch of humor\u2014because, at the slightest sting of wit, its entire membrane of fakery would burst and leave hardly a piffle of vapor behind. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 18 Mar. 2021",
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"The fact that all those involved in discussing this question have heads full of tosh and piffle does not make for productive debates. \u2014 Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker , 16 Nov. 2020",
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"Though often dismissed as superstitious piffle , ghosts have proved surprisingly durable. \u2014 The Economist , 28 Oct. 2017",
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"This is music for thinking adults, a welcome antidote to the puerile piffle that currently dominates the airwaves. \u2014 Randy Lewis, latimes.com , 4 Aug. 2017",
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"And how much nicer a sentence that is than all that life-ruining piffle about the atopic character of literary space, an indigestible confection that deserves to be tossed from one of Loving\u2019s trains, to languish by the wayside forever. \u2014 Simon Winchester, New York Times , 1 June 2016",
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"Rihanna\u2019s involvement in this piece of joyful piffle is a sign of a few important trends in pop. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 5 July 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1847, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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"1890, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"perhaps blend of piddle and trifle":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8pi-f\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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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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"fudge",
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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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"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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042511",
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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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"piffler":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one that piffles":[]
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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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"\u02c8pif(\u0259)l\u0259(r)"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040817",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"piffling":{
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"antonyms":[
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"big",
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"consequential",
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"considerable",
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"important",
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"material",
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"significant"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": of little worth or importance : trivial":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"from his perspective as a billionaire, what the governor got paid was a piffling amount"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1864, 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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"\u02c8pi-fl\u0259n",
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"-f(\u0259-)li\u014b"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"chicken",
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"de minimis",
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"footling",
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"inconsequential",
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"inconsiderable",
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"insignificant",
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"measly",
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"Mickey Mouse",
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"minute",
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"negligible",
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"niggling",
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"no-account",
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"nominal",
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"paltry",
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"peanut",
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"petty",
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"picayune",
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"piddling",
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"piddly",
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"pimping",
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"slight",
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"trifling",
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"trivial"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215048",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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}
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} |