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},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-fireball.wav",
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"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
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}
{
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"English 3-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English endocentric compounds",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English verbs",
"Requests for review of Italian translations",
"en:Fire",
"en:Nuclear warfare",
"en:Violence",
"en:Watercraft",
"en:Weapons"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fire",
"3": "ball"
},
"expansion": "fire + ball",
"name": "compound"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "fireball (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1954, John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday, published 1960, page xxxix. 202",
"text": "\"Give us a hand,\" said Mack. \"How's she look?\" \"Fireball,\" said Eddie.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Excellent; terrific."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) Excellent; terrific."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"slang"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ)ˌbɔːl/"
},
{
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-fireball.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-fireball.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-fireball.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "fireball"
}
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