See catawampus on Wiktionary
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"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
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"tags": [
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]
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit:",
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"Fierce, destructive."
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