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"english": "And would it be good for drawing polandball and rage comics?",
"ref": "2014 June 2, J.F., “Re: Tablet graficzny \"made in Biedronka\" :)”, in pl.rec.foto.cyfrowa (Usenet)",
"text": "A nadałoby się to do rysowania komiksów typu polandball i rage?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Polandball"
],
"links": [
[
"Polandball",
"#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"inanimate",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɔ.land.bɔl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-andbɔl"
}
],
"word": "Polandball"
}
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