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"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "höppänä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "radoteur"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Seniler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Senile"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "trotty"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "vén szivar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bacucco"
},
{
"alt": "おいぼれ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "oibore",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "老い耄れ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "neukdari",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "늙다리"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "neukdarimichigwang'i",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "늙다리미치광이"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "r'doteux"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xereft",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "خرفت"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ramol"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "originally: patient suffering from senile dementia",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "marazmátik",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "маразма́тик"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stáryj durák",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "ста́рый дура́к"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chocho"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "gagá"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "ulyanin"
}
],
"word": "dotard"
}
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"Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms suffixed with -ard",
"Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Middle English terms with quotations",
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"enm:Mind",
"enm:People"
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},
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}
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"name": "af"
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],
"etymology_text": "From doten + -ard.",
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"form": "dotardes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, \"The Wife of Bath's Prologue,\" lines 285-92, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Prologue_and_Tale\nThou seist, that oxen, asses, hors, and houndes, / They been assayed at diverse stoundes; / Bacins, lavours, er that men hem bye, / Spones and stoles, and al swich housbondrye, / And so been pottes, clothes, and array; / But folk of wyves maken noon assay / Til they be wedded; olde dotard shrewe! / And than, seistow, we wol oure vices shewe.",
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"A dotard; someone who displays senility."
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"links": [
[
"dotard",
"dotard#English"
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[
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"senility"
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]
},
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"glosses": [
"A fool or simpleton; someone who displays stupidity."
],
"links": [
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"simpleton",
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[
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"stupidity"
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]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɔːtard/"
}
],
"word": "dotard"
}
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