See spect on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "aphetic form of expect", "forms": [ { "form": "spects", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "specting", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "spected", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "spected", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "spect (third-person singular simple present spects, present participle specting, simple past and past participle spected)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1871, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple's Flyaway:", "text": "\"I's growing so big now, mamma,\" said she, coaxingly, \"don't you spect I must have some tea?\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories:", "text": "Looks like rain, Elder; I 'spect she'll have to go over with me arter all,\" said George Thayer, the handsomest, best-natured stage-driver in the whole State of New Hampshire.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1922, Various, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921:", "text": "We didn' 'spect Marse Wes to bring home a wife whenas he lef', but that ain' no sign that it ain' a mighty fine thing.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1962, “Comin' Home Baby”, in Comin' Home Baby!, performed by Mel Tormé:", "text": "I'm comin' home, I know I'm overdue\nSpect me any day now real soon", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2002 September 6, Richard Meltzer, “Autumn Rhythm”, in Chicago Reader:", "text": "With global warming, you may need sweat towels more than you currently 'spect.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "expect" ], "id": "en-spect-en-verb-d~LwNnJu", "links": [ [ "expect", "expect" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) expect" ], "related": [ { "english": "etymologically unrelated", "word": "spect-actor" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "'spect" } ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "rhymes": "-ɛkt" } ], "word": "spect" }
{ "etymology_text": "aphetic form of expect", "forms": [ { "form": "spects", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "specting", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "spected", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "spected", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "spect (third-person singular simple present spects, present participle specting, simple past and past participle spected)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "english": "etymologically unrelated", "word": "spect-actor" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English colloquialisms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:English/ɛkt", "Rhymes:English/ɛkt/1 syllable" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1871, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple's Flyaway:", "text": "\"I's growing so big now, mamma,\" said she, coaxingly, \"don't you spect I must have some tea?\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories:", "text": "Looks like rain, Elder; I 'spect she'll have to go over with me arter all,\" said George Thayer, the handsomest, best-natured stage-driver in the whole State of New Hampshire.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1922, Various, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921:", "text": "We didn' 'spect Marse Wes to bring home a wife whenas he lef', but that ain' no sign that it ain' a mighty fine thing.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1962, “Comin' Home Baby”, in Comin' Home Baby!, performed by Mel Tormé:", "text": "I'm comin' home, I know I'm overdue\nSpect me any day now real soon", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2002 September 6, Richard Meltzer, “Autumn Rhythm”, in Chicago Reader:", "text": "With global warming, you may need sweat towels more than you currently 'spect.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "expect" ], "links": [ [ "expect", "expect" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) expect" ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "rhymes": "-ɛkt" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "'spect" } ], "word": "spect" }
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