See dreary on Wiktionary
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"trurig",
"trurig#Low_German"
],
[
"traurig",
"traurig#German"
],
[
"dreyrugr",
"dreyrugr#Old_Norse"
],
[
"dreyrigr",
"dreyrigr#Old_Norse"
],
[
"dreyrugur",
"dreyrugur#Icelandic"
],
[
"drēor",
"dreor#Old_English"
],
[
"drysmian",
"drysmian#Old_English"
]
],
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"2": "enm",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "drēoriġ",
"t": "sad"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*dreuzagaz",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*dʰrews-",
"t": "to break, break off, crumble"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”)",
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},
{
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"3": "-y<id:adjectival>"
},
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"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "trurich",
"t": "sad, dreary"
},
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},
{
"args": {
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"t": "sad, dreary"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "treurig",
"t": "sad, gloomy"
},
"expansion": "Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "trurig",
"t": "sad"
},
"expansion": "Low German trurig (“sad”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "traurig",
"t": "sad, sorrowful, mournful"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "dreyrugr"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse dreyrugr",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "dreyrugur",
"t": "bloody"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic dreyrugur (“bloody”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "drēor",
"t": "blood, falling blood"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "drysmian",
"t": "to become gloomy"
},
"expansion": "Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
"form": "drearies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"text": "In the glow of this project Steele manages to forget altogether the parade of donnish and scholastic drearies, the barricades of schoolbooks, texts, examinations with which he has dealt so faithfully."
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
61,
69
]
],
"ref": "2018, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang:",
"text": "I'm taking it all down. The trivialities. The ramblings. The drearies. The trites.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A dreary person or thing."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A dreary person or thing."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹɪəɹi/",
"tags": [
"Australia",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹɪɹi/",
"note": "General American, mirror–nearer merger"
},
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"note": "mirror-nearer",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-us-dreary.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹɪɚi/",
"note": "without the mirror–nearer merger",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹiɹi/",
"note": "without the mirror–nearer merger",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹiɹɪ/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹiɹe/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹiəɹi/",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹɛːɹi/",
"note": "East Anglia, cheer–chair merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪəɹi"
}
],
"word": "dreary"
}
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