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"plural"
]
}
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"name": "en-noun"
}
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{
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"British English",
"English Thieves' Cant",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter XXVIII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, volume 1, New York: J. & J. Harper, page 228",
"text": "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degen, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Sword."
],
"links": [
[
"Sword",
"sword"
]
],
"qualifier": "thieves' cant",
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Sword."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdeɪɡən/"
}
],
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{
"word": "degan"
},
{
"word": "dagen"
}
],
"word": "degen"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"en:Weapons"
],
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"1": "en",
"2": "degenerate"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of degenerate",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipping of degenerate.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "degens",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "degen (plural degens)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English internet slang"
],
"glosses": [
"Degenerate."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
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"slang",
"slang"
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[
"Degenerate",
"degenerate"
]
],
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"(Internet slang) Degenerate."
],
"tags": [
"Internet"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈdiːd͡ʒɛn/"
}
],
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}
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{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "degen",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish non-lemma forms",
"Swedish noun forms"
],
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{
"word": "deg"
}
],
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"definite singular of deg"
],
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[
"deg",
"deg#Swedish"
]
],
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"definite",
"form-of",
"singular"
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}
],
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