See droll on Wiktionary
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"name": "is-decl-noun-base"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "n-s",
"accs": "droll",
"accsd": "drollið",
"dats": "drolli",
"datsd": "drollinu",
"gens": "drolls",
"gensd": "drollsins",
"noms": "droll",
"nomsd": "drollið"
},
"name": "is-decl-noun-base/sg"
}
],
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "drolla"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Icelandic entries with incorrect language header",
"Icelandic lemmas",
"Icelandic neuter nouns",
"Icelandic nouns",
"Icelandic uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Rhymes:Icelandic/ɔtl",
"Rhymes:Icelandic/ɔtl/1 syllable"
],
"glosses": [
"dawdling, loitering"
],
"links": [
[
"dawdling",
"dawdling"
],
[
"loitering",
"loitering"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"no-plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/trɔtl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔtl"
}
],
"word": "droll"
}
Download raw JSONL data for droll meaning in All languages combined (16.6kB)
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"msg": "suspicious translation with '; ': {'lang': 'Chinese Mandarin', 'code': 'cmn', 'sense': 'oddly humorous; whimsical', 'word': '离奇可笑的; 滑稽古怪的'}",
"path": [
"droll"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "droll",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/2466",
"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Icelandic]; cleaned text: n-s",
"path": [
"droll"
],
"section": "Icelandic",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "droll",
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}
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