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"ref": "2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Pot-Bellied Seahorse”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York, N.Y.: Grove Atlantic, published 2014, section 5",
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"sense": "to talk rapidly without making much sense",
"word": "déblatérer"
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"_dis1": "98 2",
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"word": "dégoiser"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to talk rapidly without making much sense",
"word": "quasseln"
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"_dis1": "98 2",
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"sense": "to talk rapidly without making much sense",
"word": "quatschen"
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"_dis1": "98 2",
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"word": "sabbeln"
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"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to talk rapidly without making much sense",
"word": "blaterare"
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"_dis1": "98 2",
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"sense": "to talk rapidly without making much sense",
"word": "sproloquiare"
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"_dis1": "98 2",
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"word": "straparlare"
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"word": "kunanu"
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"word": "despotricar"
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"sense": "to talk rapidly without making much sense",
"word": "pladdra"
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"_dis1": "98 2",
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"word": "çene çalmak"
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"ref": "1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, act I, scene i, page 31",
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"ref": "1922, Rafael Sabatini, chapter 23, in Captain Blood, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 265",
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"text": "1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,\n[…] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe\nA blather, where the windes imboweld were,"
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