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"code": "es",
"english": "whistle",
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"sense": "shout or whistle expressing dislike",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
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"code": "fi",
"english": "whistle",
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"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
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"english": "shout",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Hinterherpfeifen"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
"word": "(oda)füttyentés"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
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},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
"word": "приставание"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature",
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}
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"third-person"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make such an exclamation",
"word": "huudella"
},
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"code": "de",
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},
{
"code": "de",
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},
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"lang": "Hungarian",
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},
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"sense": "make such an exclamation",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "make such an exclamation",
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"code": "es",
"english": "shout",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "make such an exclamation",
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"code": "sv",
"english": "shout",
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"sense": "make such an exclamation",
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}
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"plural"
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"ref": "1999, Ian Joyner, Objects Unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++?, page 244",
"text": "Java does not let you make members more private than they are in parent classes, so has no catcall problem for changing availability. Thus to avoid catcalls with export problems, you should adopt a once-public, always-public policy.",
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}
],
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"In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type."
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[
"programming",
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[
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"(programming) In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type."
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],
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