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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "an ill-tempered stubborn person",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "namćor"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an ill-tempered stubborn person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "testarudo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an ill-tempered stubborn person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "cascarrabias"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "an ill-tempered stubborn person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cingroen"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "an ill-tempered stubborn person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cerlyn"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "an ill-tempered stubborn person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gŵr crintach"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Philemon Holland"
],
"word": "curmudgeon"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": old grumbler vs. vorčin",
"path": [
"curmudgeon"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "curmudgeon",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": vorčin vs. staryj",
"path": [
"curmudgeon"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "curmudgeon",
"trace": ""
}
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