See seld on Wiktionary
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"scant" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:rare", "word": "scantling" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:rare", "word": "scarce" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:rare", "word": "selcouth" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:rare", "tags": [ "archaic" ], "word": "seld" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:rare", "tags": [ "archaic" ], "word": "seldom" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:rare", "tags": [ "UK", "dialectal" ], "word": "selly" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:rare", "word": "superrare" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:rare", "word": "uncommon" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:rare", "word": "unfrequent" } ], "tags": [ "archaic" ] }, { "glosses": [ "Unusual, unwonted." ], "links": [ [ "Unusual", "unusual" ], [ "unwonted", "unwonted" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "bizarre" }, { "word": "odd" }, { "word": "weird" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "aberrant" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "abnormal" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "alien" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "anomalous" }, { "source": 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"Thesaurus:strange", "tags": [ "UK" ], "word": "queer as a nine bob note" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "tags": [ "US" ], "word": "queer as a three dollar bill" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "queer as a coot" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "tags": [ "dated" ], "word": "queer as Dick's hatband" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "rare" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "tags": [ "UK", "dated" ], "word": "rum" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "tags": [ "UK", "dated" ], "word": "rummy" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "selcouth" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "seld" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "singular" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "strange" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "tags": [ "informal" ], "word": "trippy" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "uncanny" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "uncommon" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:strange", "word": "unconventional" }, { 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"gmw-pro", "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/seld", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Proto-West Germanic a-stem adjectives", "Proto-West Germanic adjectives", "Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header", "Proto-West Germanic lemmas", "Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic", "Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic" ], "glosses": [ "rare" ], "links": [ [ "rare", "rare" ] ], "tags": [ "reconstruction" ] } ], "word": "seld" } { "categories": [ "Pages with 4 entries", "Pages with entries", "Requests for pronunciation in Welsh entries", "Welsh countable nouns", "Welsh entries with incorrect language header", "Welsh feminine nouns", "Welsh lemmas", "Welsh non-mutable terms", "Welsh nouns", "Welsh nouns with red links in their headword lines", "Welsh terms borrowed from English", "Welsh terms derived from English", "cy:Furniture" ], "derived": [ { "english": "sideboard", "word": "seldfwrdd" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "cy", "2": "en", "3": "seld" }, "expansion": "Borrowed from English seld", "name": "bor+" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English seld.", "forms": [ { "form": "seldiau", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "seldi", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "f", "2": "seldiau", "pl2": "seldi" }, "expansion": "seld f (plural seldiau or seldi, not mutable)", "name": "cy-noun" } ], "lang": "Welsh", "lang_code": "cy", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "dresser" ], "links": [ [ "dresser", "dresser" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "dreser" } ], "tags": [ "feminine", "not-mutable" ] }, { "glosses": [ "sideboard" ], "links": [ [ "sideboard", "sideboard" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "seldfwrdd" }, { "word": "ystlysfwrdd" } ], "tags": [ "feminine", "not-mutable" ] } ], "word": "seld" }
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