See teef on Wiktionary
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"Nigeria"
]
}
],
"word": "teef"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "nl",
"3": "teef"
},
"expansion": "Dutch teef",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Dutch teef.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "teven",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "teefke",
"tags": [
"diminutive"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"10": "{{{pl3}}}",
"11": "",
"12": "",
"13": "diminutive",
"14": "teefke",
"15": "",
"16": "{{{dim2}}}",
"17": "",
"18": "{{{dim3}}}",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "teven",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{pl2}}}",
"9": "",
"f2accel-form": "p",
"f2request": "1",
"f6accel-form": "diminutive",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "teef c (plural teven, diminutive teefke)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c",
"2": "teven",
"3": "teefke"
},
"expansion": "teef c (plural teven, diminutive teefke)",
"name": "fy-noun"
}
],
"lang": "West Frisian",
"lang_code": "fy",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"West Frisian common-gender nouns",
"West Frisian entries with incorrect language header",
"West Frisian lemmas",
"West Frisian nouns",
"West Frisian terms borrowed from Dutch",
"West Frisian terms derived from Dutch"
],
"glosses": [
"bitch, female dog"
],
"links": [
[
"bitch",
"bitch"
],
[
"dog",
"dog"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/teːf/"
}
],
"word": "teef"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: MLE, MTE, Nigeria",
"path": [
"teef"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "teef",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: MLE, MTE, Nigeria",
"path": [
"teef"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "teef",
"trace": ""
}
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