See Muff on Wiktionary
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"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Muffes",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Muffs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Muff",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Muffe",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Muff",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,(e)s.sg"
},
"expansion": "Muff m (strong, genitive Muffes or Muffs, no plural)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,(e)s.sg"
},
"name": "de-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German colloquialisms",
"German terms with quotations",
"German terms with usage examples",
"Northern German",
"Requests for translations of German quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Unter den Talaren – Muff von 1000 Jahren\nUnder the academic dresses – mouldy smell of 1000 years\n(famous slogan of the 1960s student movement in Germany)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2007 November 9, Jon Mendrala, Philipp Dudek, “Schon 40 Jahre ohne Muff”, in taz:",
"text": "„Unter den Talaren – Muff von 1000 Jahren“ stand in weißer Schrift auf dem schwarzen Banner. […] Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung schrieb tags darauf, dass es schon seltsam sei, den Muff von 1000 Jahren anzuprangern – denn so alt sei die 1919 gegründete Universität doch gar nicht.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"stench, mouldy smell"
],
"links": [
[
"stench",
"stench"
],
[
"mouldy",
"mouldy"
],
[
"smell",
"smell"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, chiefly Northern Germany) stench, mouldy smell"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Gestank"
},
{
"word": "Mief"
}
],
"tags": [
"Northern-Germany",
"colloquial",
"masculine",
"no-plural",
"strong"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mʊf/"
},
{
"audio": "De-Muff.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/De-Muff.ogg/De-Muff.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/De-Muff.ogg"
}
],
"word": "Muff"
}
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