See canker on Wiktionary
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"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "cankers",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "canker (plural cankers)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "canker (plural cankers)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Bad temper."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɔːŋɡkʌr/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Scots"
]
}
],
"word": "canker"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots terms derived from Latin",
"Scots terms derived from Middle English",
"Scots terms derived from Old English",
"Scots verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "enm",
"3": "canker"
},
"expansion": "Middle English canker",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "ang",
"3": "cancer"
},
"expansion": "Old English cancer",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "la",
"3": "cancer",
"4": "",
"5": "a cancer"
},
"expansion": "Latin cancer (“a cancer”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Middle English canker, cancre, Old English cancer, akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. From Latin cancer (“a cancer”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cankers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cankerin",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cankert",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cankert",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cancre",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "cankyr",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "kanker",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "cankert",
"2": "verbs",
"3": "third-person singular simple present",
"4": "cankers",
"5": "present participle",
"6": "cankerin",
"7": "simple past",
"8": "cankert",
"9": "past participle",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "canker (third-person singular simple present cankers, present participle cankerin, simple past cankert, past participle cankert)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "canker (third-person singular simple present cankers, present participle cankerin, simple past cankert, past participle cankert)",
"name": "sco-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Scots terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To become bad-tempered, to fret, to worry."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) To become bad-tempered, to fret, to worry."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɔːŋɡkʌr/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Scots"
]
}
],
"word": "canker"
}
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