See mammy on Wiktionary
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"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "mamie"
}
],
"categories": [
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"alternative spelling of mamie"
],
"links": [
[
"mamie",
"mamie#French"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "mammy"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "mammy",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"mam‧my"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"mam‧my"
]
}
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Polish 2-syllable words",
"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish non-lemma forms",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish verb forms",
"Rhymes:Polish/ammɘ",
"Rhymes:Polish/ammɘ/2 syllables"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "mamić"
}
],
"glosses": [
"first-person plural imperative of mamić"
],
"links": [
[
"mamić",
"mamić#Polish"
]
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"imperative",
"plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmam.mɘ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ammɘ"
}
],
"word": "mammy"
}
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