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Noun [Dutch]

IPA: /ˌkaːˈnɑ.jə/ Audio: Nl-canaille.ogg Forms: canailles [plural], kanalje [alternative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French canaille, from Italian canaglia. From the sixteenth century onwards. Etymology templates: {{bor|nl|frm|canaille}} Middle French canaille, {{der|nl|it|canaglia}} Italian canaglia Head templates: {{nl-noun|n|-s|-}} canaille n (plural canailles)
  1. (uncountable) plebs, scum, riffraff Tags: neuter, uncountable
    Sense id: en-canaille-nl-noun-Z0D2kwOt Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 67 33
  2. (countable) rascal, jerk, scumbag Tags: countable, neuter
    Sense id: en-canaille-nl-noun-gqHBdWIX

Noun [English]

IPA: /kəˈnaɪ/, /kəˈneɪl/ Forms: canailles [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French canaille. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|canaille}} Middle French canaille Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} canaille (countable and uncountable, plural canailles)
  1. (countable, collective) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. Tags: collective, countable
    Sense id: en-canaille-en-noun-ePYhTOkp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Synonyms: canaille, commonality, commonalty, crowd, demos, everyone, general public, great unhosed, great unwashed, herd, hoi polloi, lower class, many, masses, mob, multitude, odds and sods [Britain], peasantry, plebs, populace, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, third estate, trash, unwashed, unwashed masses, working class
  2. (uncountable, Canada) Shorts or inferior flour. Tags: Canada, uncountable
    Sense id: en-canaille-en-noun-g0m8rRoy Categories (other): Canadian English

Adjective [French]

IPA: /ka.naj/, /ka.nɑj/, /kɑ̃.naj/ [Louisiana] Audio: Fr-canaille.ogg Forms: canailles [plural]
Rhymes: -aj Etymology: Inherited from Middle French canaille, from Italian canaglia. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|canaille|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French canaille, {{inh+|fr|frm|canaille}} Inherited from Middle French canaille, {{der|fr|it|canaglia}} Italian canaglia Head templates: {{fr-adj}} canaille (plural canailles)
  1. raffish
    Sense id: en-canaille-fr-adj-Sr0y46UZ
  2. scoundrelly
    Sense id: en-canaille-fr-adj-lnPwpRNg Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 6 3 25 6 2 33 3 2 0 7 5 0 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 2 27 4 1 46 2 1 0 4 3 0 5 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 3 52 4 3 1 8 7 11 11
  3. (Louisiana) cunning, tricky Tags: Louisiana
    Sense id: en-canaille-fr-adj-Jopiw-sT Categories (other): Louisiana French
  4. (Louisiana) mischievous Tags: Louisiana
    Sense id: en-canaille-fr-adj-Uqmv0Jz- Categories (other): Louisiana French
  5. (Louisiana) unruly Tags: Louisiana
    Sense id: en-canaille-fr-adj-0DWK-dfX Categories (other): Louisiana French
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Noun [French]

IPA: /ka.naj/, /ka.nɑj/, /kɑ̃.naj/ [Louisiana] Audio: Fr-canaille.ogg Forms: canailles [plural]
Rhymes: -aj Etymology: Inherited from Middle French canaille, from Italian canaglia. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|canaille|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French canaille, {{inh+|fr|frm|canaille}} Inherited from Middle French canaille, {{der|fr|it|canaglia}} Italian canaglia Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} canaille f (plural canailles)
  1. (archaic, derogatory, collectively) rabble, riffraff Tags: archaic, collective, derogatory, feminine
    Sense id: en-canaille-fr-noun-RzUTHZPo
  2. (also Louisiana) rascal, blackguard, scoundrel, scum Tags: Louisiana, also, feminine
    Sense id: en-canaille-fr-noun-2iLuhtog Categories (other): Louisiana French
  3. (Louisiana) clever person Tags: Louisiana, feminine
    Sense id: en-canaille-fr-noun-zc~YytvD Categories (other): Louisiana French
  4. (Louisiana) trickster, prankster Tags: Louisiana, feminine
    Sense id: en-canaille-fr-noun-sIgSIZRl Categories (other): Louisiana French
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: canailler, canaillerie, canaillocratie, canaillou, encanaillement, encanailler
Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1553, Ambroise Paré, “The Journey to Hesdin”, in Journeys In Diverse Places:",
          "text": "I was on a rampart watching the enemy pitch their camp; and, seeing the crowd of idlers round the stream, I asked M. du Pont, commissary of the artillery, to send one cannon-shot among this canaille: he gave me a flat refusal, saying that all this sort of people was not worth the powder would be wasted on them.",
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          "ref": "1865, John Ruskin, \"Of Kings' Treasuries\", Unto This Last and Other Writings, Penguin: New York (1997), p. 262",
          "text": "… whatever language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly; above all, he is learned in the peerage of words; knows the words of true descent and ancient blood, at a glance, from words of modern canaille; …"
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          "ref": "1937, P. G. Wodehouse, Lord Emsworth and Others, Woodstock: Overlook, published 2002, pages 99–100:",
          "text": "The President's Cup, for all its high-sounding name, was one of the lowliest and most humble trophies offered for competition to the members of our club... It had been instituted by a kindly committee for the benefit of the canaille of our little golfing world, those retired military, naval and business men who withdraw to the country and take up golf in their fifties.",
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        "(countable, collective) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar."
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          "word": "commonality"
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "crowd"
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          "word": "everyone"
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        {
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          "word": "general public"
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        {
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          "word": "great unhosed"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "great unwashed"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "herd"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "hoi polloi"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "lower class"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "many"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "masses"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "mob"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "multitude"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "odds and sods"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "peasantry"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "plebs"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "populace"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "proletariat"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "rabble"
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          "word": "rank and file"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "riffraff"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "third estate"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "trash"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
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        "Shorts or inferior flour."
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        "(uncountable, Canada) Shorts or inferior flour."
      ],
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        "Canada",
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      ],
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        "(countable) rascal, jerk, scumbag"
      ],
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        "countable",
        "neuter"
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    {
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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            "bor": "1"
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    },
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        {
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            "2": "Canaille",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Canaille",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Canaille"
    }
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        "sort": "",
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "rabble, riffraff"
      ],
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      ],
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        "derogatory",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Louisiana French",
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          "source": "w"
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      ],
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          "blackguard",
          "blackguard"
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        [
          "scoundrel",
          "scoundrel"
        ],
        [
          "scum",
          "scum"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(also Louisiana) rascal, blackguard, scoundrel, scum"
      ],
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        "also",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "source": "w"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "clever person"
      ],
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        [
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          "clever"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Louisiana) clever person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana",
        "feminine"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Louisiana French",
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          "source": "w"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "trickster, prankster"
      ],
      "id": "en-canaille-fr-noun-sIgSIZRl",
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        [
          "trickster",
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        ],
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          "prankster",
          "prankster"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Louisiana) trickster, prankster"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ka.naj/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ka.nɑj/"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Fr-canaille.ogg",
      "text": "\"une canaille\""
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑ̃.naj/",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aj"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "canailles"
    }
  ],
  "word": "canaille"
}

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      "parents": [],
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    {
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        {
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        "Louisiana"
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        {
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        "Louisiana"
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    "Dutch lemmas",
    "Dutch neuter nouns",
    "Dutch nouns",
    "Dutch nouns with plural in -s",
    "Dutch terms borrowed from Middle French",
    "Dutch terms derived from Italian",
    "Dutch terms derived from Middle French",
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    {
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        {
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        "neuter",
        "uncountable"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Dutch countable nouns"
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        "rascal, jerk, scumbag"
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          "jerk"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) rascal, jerk, scumbag"
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Middle French",
    "English terms derived from Middle French",
    "English uncountable nouns",
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    {
      "args": {
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        "English collective nouns",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "commonality"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "commonalty"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "crowd"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "demos"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "everyone"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "general public"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "great unhosed"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "great unwashed"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "herd"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "hoi polloi"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "lower class"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "many"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "masses"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "mob"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "multitude"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "odds and sods"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "peasantry"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
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        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "populace"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
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        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "third estate"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "trash"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
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        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "unwashed masses"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:commonalty",
          "word": "working class"
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      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Canadian English",
        "English uncountable nouns"
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        "Shorts or inferior flour."
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    {
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    "French lemmas",
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    "French terms derived from Italian",
    "French terms derived from Middle French",
    "French terms inherited from Middle French",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
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            "2": "kanalja",
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
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            "2": "Canaille",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ German: Canaille",
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        "5": "",
        "g": "",
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        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
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        "sort": "",
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "French derogatory terms",
        "French terms with archaic senses"
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        "collective",
        "derogatory",
        "feminine"
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      "categories": [
        "Louisiana French"
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      "glosses": [
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      ],
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        [
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          "rascal"
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        [
          "blackguard",
          "blackguard"
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        [
          "scoundrel",
          "scoundrel"
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        [
          "scum",
          "scum"
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        "also",
        "feminine"
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        "(Louisiana) clever person"
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      "tags": [
        "Louisiana",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Louisiana French"
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      "glosses": [
        "trickster, prankster"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "trickster"
        ],
        [
          "prankster",
          "prankster"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Louisiana) trickster, prankster"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana",
        "feminine"
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    }
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      "ipa": "/ka.naj/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ka.nɑj/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/kɑ̃.naj/",
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        "Louisiana"
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    "French adjectives",
    "French countable nouns",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French feminine nouns",
    "French lemmas",
    "French nouns",
    "French terms derived from Italian",
    "French terms derived from Middle French",
    "French terms inherited from Middle French",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French terms with homophones",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:French/aj",
    "Rhymes:French/aj/2 syllables",
    "fr:People"
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    },
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        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "canaille",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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        "2": "frm",
        "3": "canaille"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "canaglia"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle French canaille, from Italian canaglia.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "canailles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "canaille (plural canailles)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "raffish"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "raffish",
          "raffish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "scoundrelly"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scoundrelly",
          "scoundrelly"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Louisiana French"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cunning, tricky"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cunning",
          "cunning"
        ],
        [
          "tricky",
          "tricky"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Louisiana) cunning, tricky"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Louisiana French"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mischievous"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mischievous",
          "mischievous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Louisiana) mischievous"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Louisiana French"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unruly"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unruly",
          "unruly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Louisiana) unruly"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ka.naj/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ka.nɑj/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-canaille.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/21/Fr-canaille.ogg/Fr-canaille.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Fr-canaille.ogg",
      "text": "\"une canaille\""
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑ̃.naj/",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aj"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "canailles"
    }
  ],
  "word": "canaille"
}

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