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"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "wonderful, amusing; cool",
"word": "brilliant"
}
],
"categories": [
"British English",
"English clippings",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "That song is totally brill, innit!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2004 April 22, Jon Henley, “Guides show Parisians where their best bread is buttered”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "So what makes a brill baguette? For Mr Paluel-Marmont and Mr de Rovira, a star French stick can usually be identified merely by its appearance.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Clipping of brilliant; wonderful, amusing; cool."
],
"links": [
[
"brilliant",
"brilliant#English"
],
[
"wonderful",
"wonderful"
],
[
"amusing",
"amusing"
],
[
"cool",
"cool"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, slang) Clipping of brilliant; wonderful, amusing; cool."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"clipping",
"slang"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/bɹɪl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪl"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-brill.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/En-au-brill.ogg/En-au-brill.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/En-au-brill.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "brill"
}
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{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "brill",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "beryl"
}
],
"categories": [
"Late Middle English",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of beryl"
],
"links": [
[
"beryl",
"beryl#Middle English"
]
],
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"(Late Middle English) Alternative form of beryl"
],
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"Late-Middle-English",
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "brill"
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