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"ref": "1699, Captain William Dampier, A new voyage round the world, Volume 1",
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"sense": "spiteful",
"word": "gehässig"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spiteful",
"word": "stutenbissig"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "spiteful",
"word": "sunyi"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "spiteful",
"word": "alattomos"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "spiteful",
"word": "rosszindulatú"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "spiteful",
"word": "malizioso"
},
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "spiteful",
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},
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "spiteful",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "spiteful",
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"sense": "spiteful",
"word": "злой"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "spiteful",
"word": "malicioso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "spiteful",
"word": "spydig"
}
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"ref": "1699, Captain William Dampier, A new voyage round the world, Volume 1",
"text": "16 Mess, make a Tale, which here is 20 s. English, 5 Tale make a Bancal, a weight so called, and 20 Bancal make a Catty, another weight.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1847, Robert Montgomery Martin, China; Political, Commercial, and Social, volume 2, James Madden, page 124",
"text": "Transparent yellow pieces are the best; the price is from eight to fourteen dollars per catty, according to size and quality.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Huaiyin Li, Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008, Stanford University Press, page 94",
"text": "To limit team members' consumption, it issued food stamps to the villagers and allowed everyone to eat one catty of rice a day.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
"word": "斤"
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{
"code": "hak",
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"word": "斤"
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"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
"word": "斤"
},
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"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"roman": "¹cin",
"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
"word": "斤"
},
{
"code": "id",
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"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
"word": "kati"
},
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"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
"word": "斤"
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{
"alt": "斤",
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
"word": "근"
},
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"code": "ms",
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"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
"word": "kati"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
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"neuter"
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"word": "ка́тти"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "цзинь"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "maa yon",
"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
"word": "มายน"
},
{
"alt": "斤",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a unit of weight in China",
"word": "cân"
}
],
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}
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"word": "catty-corner"
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{
"word": "catty-cornered"
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"word": "catty-mount"
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"ref": "2009, Sheldon Arensen, The Carjackers, page 43",
"text": "“Give me your slingshot, and I'll let you have it back after school this afternoon,” she said firmly. […] I stuck the 'catty' into my back pocket and ran outside to meet the others.",
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{
"ref": "2017, David Cooper, Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared",
"text": "You could also keep a tennis ball and a frog, or a catapult and a frog, but not all three together. I know because I tried it. The frog got a bit squashed between the ball and the handle of the catty.",
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}
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"A catapult."
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"(slang) A catapult."
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