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"etymology_text": "From the lack of clothes worn when one is born.",
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"ref": "1998, Paul Vaughn, “Confessions of a Naked Writer”, in Orange Coast, page 185",
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"ref": "2000, Denis Charles Phillips, The Expanded Social Scientist's Bestiary: A Guide to Fabled Threats to, and Defenses of, Naturalistic Social Science, page 85",
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"ref": "2001, Tom Slattery, Immodest Proposals: Through the Pornographic Looking Glass, page 181",
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"word": "vestit d'Adam"
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"roman": "yīsībùguà",
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"sense": "nakedness",
"word": "in one’s birthday suit: como veio ao mundo"
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"word": "костю́м Е́вы"
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"roman": "v čom matʹ rodilá",
"sense": "nakedness",
"word": "to be in one’s birthday suit: в чём мать родила́"
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"note": "to be in one’s birthday suit: estar como su madre le trajo al mundo",
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"sense": "nakedness",
"word": "ชุดวันเกิด"
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"word": "in one’s birthday suit: como veio ao mundo"
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "used of women",
"roman": "kostjúm Jévy",
"sense": "nakedness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "костю́м Е́вы"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "v čom matʹ rodilá",
"sense": "nakedness",
"word": "to be in one’s birthday suit: в чём мать родила́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"note": "to be in one’s birthday suit: estar como su madre le trajo al mundo",
"sense": "nakedness"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "nakedness",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "adamsdräkt"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "nakedness",
"word": "ชุดวันเกิด"
}
],
"word": "birthday suit"
}
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"called_from": "translations/611",
"msg": "suspicious translation with ': ': {'lang': 'Portuguese', 'code': 'pt', 'sense': 'nakedness', 'word': 'in one’s birthday suit: como veio ao mundo'}",
"path": [
"birthday suit"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "birthday suit",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "translations/611",
"msg": "suspicious translation with ': ': {'lang': 'Russian', 'code': 'ru', 'sense': 'nakedness', 'roman': 'v čom matʹ rodilá', 'word': 'to be in one’s birthday suit: в чём мать родила́'}",
"path": [
"birthday suit"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "birthday suit",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
"msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
"path": [
"birthday suit"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "birthday suit",
"trace": ""
}
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