See biff on Wiktionary
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"text": "Hans brorsa är en riktig biff",
"translation": "His brother [colloquial] is really beefy / a real beefy guy [a real biff]",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
34,
38
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
32,
51
]
],
"english": "Check out that kangaroo! What a hunk/stud/unit/etc.!",
"text": "Kolla in den där kängurun! Vilken biff!",
"translation": "Check out that kangaroo! What a hunk/stud/unit/etc.!",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"someone very large and muscular; a beefy guy, a beefcake, a hunk, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"beefy",
"beefy"
],
[
"guy",
"guy"
],
[
"beefcake",
"beefcake"
],
[
"hunk",
"hunk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) someone very large and muscular; a beefy guy, a beefcake, a hunk, etc."
],
"senseid": [
"sv:beefy"
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"sv:biff"
],
"word": "biff"
}
Download raw JSONL data for biff meaning in All languages combined (14.4kB)
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"called_from": "parser/328",
"msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
"path": [
"biff"
],
"section": "Swedish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "biff",
"trace": "started on line 3, detected on line 14"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
"path": [
"biff"
],
"section": "Swedish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "biff",
"trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 14"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
"path": [
"biff"
],
"section": "Swedish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "biff",
"trace": ""
}
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