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"word": "Doctor Frankenstein"
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"word": "Dr. Frankenstein"
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"word": "Frankenstein"
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"word": "mad professor"
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"ref": "1903, William Henry Smith, The History of the State of Indiana from the Earliest Explorations by the French to the Present Time, volume 1, page 501:",
"text": "Raffineaque, the eccentric, the \"mad scientist,\" so called, yet one whose work in these later days has been proved to be of true worth, was for a time at the community.",
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"ref": "1938, Iowa State University Veterinarian, volumes 1-4, page 25:",
"text": "Deacon Jones, sometimes known as the \"Mad Scientist,\" is brushing up on the physiology of mastication.",
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"ref": "1908, Raymond McDonald, The Mad Scientist: A Tale of the Future, Cochrane Publishing Company, page 242:",
"text": "\"She is coming down like a meteor,\" exclaimed Professor Kaye. \"See, she begins to glow!\" And so it was. The giant warship Behemoth, released by the forces of Nature, was falling back to earth from a height of 30 or 40 miles, and, acquiring a frightful speed, blazed up with the heat of friction in the atmosphere, like a giant meteor. Yet the world never before saw a meteor like this. As the flaming pirate came nearer, her mass glowed in the heavens like a great red-hot sun—falling, falling, until the flames reached her powder magazine. Then there was an explosion magnificent to witness, as the glowing fragments were hurled with titanic force, spreading them far across the heavens. The red-hot particles glowed like ten thousand little suns, radiating from one center. With apparent slowness the star-like remnants of the Behemoth came to earth, descending and darkening one by one, until the last bright speck had disappeared. Then the round bright moon came out of the shadows of the eclipse, and shed her radiant beams on a world freed forever from the frightful plagues and murderous amusements of the mad scientist.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"roman": "lud učen",
"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
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"word": "луд учен"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "fēngkuáng kēxuéjiā",
"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"word": "瘋狂科學家 /疯狂科学家"
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"roman": "guài bóshì",
"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"word": "怪博士"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "fēngkuáng jiàoshòu",
"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"word": "瘋狂教授 /疯狂教授"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
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"word": "šílený vědec"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
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"word": "šílená vědkyně"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"word": "freneza sciencisto"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"word": "hullu tiedemies"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"tags": [
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"word": "savant fou"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "savante folle"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
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"word": "científico tolo"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
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"word": "verrückter Wissenschaftler"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "verrückte Wissenschaftlerin"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"word": "őrült tudós"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"roman": "maddo saientisuto",
"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"word": "マッドサイエンティスト"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
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"word": "szalony naukowiec"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
"tags": [
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"word": "científico loco"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "stock character in popular fiction",
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"word": "científica loca"
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"word": "mad scientist"
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