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"1": "en",
"2": "beak",
"gloss": "nose"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "=",
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"2": "fr",
"3": "beaucoup",
"gloss": "very much"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"2": "beak",
"3": "coconut",
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},
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"name": "blend"
},
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},
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"2": "poke"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "poke one's nose into"
},
"expansion": "poke one's nose into",
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}
],
"etymology_text": "Circa 1820. Multiple potential origins:\n# From beak (“nose”)\n# From French beaucoup (“very much”)\n# Blend of beak (“nose”) + coconut\n# From boke (“point; thrust”)\n# From poke, as in poke one's nose into",
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"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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"Fundamental"
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{
"ref": "1943, W[illiam] E[arl] Johns, Biggles Fails to Return, page 115",
"text": "[…] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1965, The Illustrated Weekly of India, volume 86, number 1, page 41",
"text": "He sang Landor's lines in a quavering falsetto, then broke raucously into the schoolboy battle-cry of \"Hit him on the boko, hit him on the boko, Jericho!\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Mary Dobbs Wood, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Inventing My Childhood, page 45",
"text": "He let out a yell, his eyes watering from the punch on the boko.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"The nose."
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[
"boxing",
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[
"nose",
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated, West Midlands, originally boxing) The nose."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "Boko Haram"
}
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{
"word": "nose"
}
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"West-Midlands",
"dated"
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}
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{
"ipa": "/ˈbəʊ.kəʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈboʊ.koʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊkəʊ"
},
{
"enpr": "bōʹkō",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
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}
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"2": "de",
"3": "Bock"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "en",
"3": "buck"
},
"expansion": "English buck",
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},
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"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "buĉi"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of buĉi",
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}
],
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{
"form": "bokon",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bokoj",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bokojn",
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"bo‧ko"
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"kind": "lifeform",
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[
"buck",
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],
[
"male",
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],
[
"deer",
"deer"
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[
"goat",
"goat"
]
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"ipa": "[ˈboko]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-oko"
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"args": {
"1": "mos",
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"t": "hole"
},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Moore boko (“hole”)",
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{
"form": "bogro",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"hole"
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"other": "/bò.kò/"
}
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"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "bqc",
"3": "-"
},
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"name": "der"
}
],
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"args": {
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},
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{
"word": "boo"
}
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"head": "bōkō"
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}
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"lang_code": "got",
"pos": "romanization",
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "𐌱𐍉𐌺𐍉"
}
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"Romanization of 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐍉"
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]
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"word": "boko"
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"args": {
"1": "ha",
"2": "en",
"3": "book"
},
"expansion": "English book",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Often stated to be borrowed from English book, but Paul Newman disputes this, stating that \"boko is an indigenous Hausa word originally connoting sham, fraud, deceit, or lack of authenticity. When the British colonial government imposed secular schools in northern Nigeria at the beginning of the 20th century, boko was applied in a pejorative sense to this new system. By semantic extension, boko came to acquire its current meaning of Hausa written in Roman script and Western education in general.\"",
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{
"form": "bōkṑ",
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"canonical",
"masculine"
]
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"form": "bōkòn",
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{
"glosses": [
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],
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[
"fraud",
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],
[
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"deceit"
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[
"trick",
"trick"
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]
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],
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"Western education"
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],
[
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]
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"ipa": "/bóː.kòː/"
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}
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"Paul Newman (linguist)"
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "mouthful",
"word": "bokedo"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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}
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"1": "io",
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"args": {
"1": "",
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"tags": [
"plural"
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{
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{
"kind": "topical",
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"opening, entrance"
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"word": "enireyo"
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[
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"(geography) mouth (of a river or stream)"
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"word": "fluvioboko"
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"ipa": "/ˈboko/"
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},
{
"ref": "1965, The Illustrated Weekly of India, volume 86, number 1, page 41",
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}
],
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[
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{
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"US"
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{
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"singular"
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{
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"plural"
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"plural"
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}
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[
"Boko",
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{
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],
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"canonical"
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"plural"
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"plural"
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}
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{
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"hole"
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"glosses": [
"pothole"
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{
"ipa": "[ˈbo.ko]"
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