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"text": "bou correndo pola posta, s'acho jantar que comer, qu'ainda a tarde ei de esparjer unha gran pilla de bosta",
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"ref": "1927, X. Lesta Meis, Estebo, A Coruña: Lar, page 106",
"text": "O Carpulla andaba á bosta. Cun cesto de aro colgado debaixo do brazo, iba e viña por camiños e carreiros recollendo canta alcontraba para facer esterco",
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"ipa": "/ˈbɔʃ.tɐ/",
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"english": "I'm running for the loaf, if I find food to eat, because yet this afternoon I ought to spread a large pile of manure",
"ref": "1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas",
"text": "bou correndo pola posta, s'acho jantar que comer, qu'ainda a tarde ei de esparjer unha gran pilla de bosta",
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"english": "Carpulla (\"Hunger\") used to search for dung. With a hoop basked under the arm, he came and went along the roads and ways, picking up as much as he could find to make manure",
"ref": "1927, X. Lesta Meis, Estebo, A Coruña: Lar, page 106",
"text": "O Carpulla andaba á bosta. Cun cesto de aro colgado debaixo do brazo, iba e viña por camiños e carreiros recollendo canta alcontraba para facer esterco",
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"2": "stō",
"3": "stāre",
"t": "to stand, remain; a standing, habitation"
},
"expansion": "stāre (“to stand, remain; a standing, habitation”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Attested since 1671. From Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷew- (“excrement; dung”) + the suffix *-st-; Compare German Kot (“feces”), Welsh budr (“filthy”).\nBack-formation from bostal (“corral: cattle pen”), from Late Latin bōstar, būstar, from bōs (“bull”) and stāre (“to stand, remain; a standing, habitation”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bostas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "bosta f (plural bostas)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"bos‧ta"
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"dung; manure (of cattle)"
],
"links": [
[
"dung",
"dung"
],
[
"manure",
"manure"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Portuguese vulgarities"
],
"glosses": [
"shit"
],
"links": [
[
"shit",
"shit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) shit"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɔs.tɐ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɔs.tɐ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɔʃ.tɐ/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɔs.ta/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɔʃ.tɐ/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
}
],
"word": "bosta"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "bọ̑sta",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sl",
"2": "verb form",
"head": "bọ̑sta"
},
"expansion": "bọ̑sta",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Slovene",
"lang_code": "sl",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Slovene 2-syllable words",
"Slovene entries with incorrect language header",
"Slovene non-lemma forms",
"Slovene terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Slovene verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bíti"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second/third-person dual future of bíti"
],
"links": [
[
"bíti",
"biti#Slovene"
]
],
"tags": [
"dual",
"form-of",
"future",
"second-person",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bóːsta/"
}
],
"word": "bosta"
}
{
"categories": [
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish feminine nouns",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish nouns"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "bostas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "bosta f (plural bostas)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"manure"
],
"links": [
[
"manure",
"manure"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"cowpat"
],
"links": [
[
"cowpat",
"cowpat"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "bosta"
}
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