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{
"text": "It would be folly to walk all that way, knowing the shops are probably shut by now.",
"type": "example"
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"Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality."
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "himarutʻyun",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "հիմարություն"
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"sense": "foolishness",
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"word": "dwaasheid"
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"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "domheid"
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"word": "stommiteit"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "malsaĝeco"
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"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "mielettömyys"
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"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "folía"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Torheit"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"tags": [
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"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
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"word": "Tollheit"
},
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"sense": "foolishness",
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},
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"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"roman": "dwaliþa",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐌳𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌹𐌸𐌰"
},
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"sense": "foolishness",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "𐌿𐌽𐍆𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹"
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"roman": "aphrosúnē",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἀφροσύνη"
},
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"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"roman": "ánoia",
"sense": "foolishness",
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},
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"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "אִוֶּלֶת"
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"sense": "foolishness",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "איוולת"
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"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "butaság"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "ostobaság"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "díchiall"
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{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "follia"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stravaganza"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stultitia"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fatuitas"
},
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"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neprātība"
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"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
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"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neprātīgums"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "glúpost",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "глу́пост"
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"roman": "lúdost",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лу́дост"
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"roman": "budaláština",
"sense": "foolishness",
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"roman": "bezúmie",
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"word": "безу́мие"
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"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "anchreeaght"
},
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"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Domheit"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "głupota"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bobeira"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prostie"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glúpostʹ",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "глу́пость"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nedomýslije",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "недомы́слие"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "durʹ",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дурь"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blažʹ",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "блажь"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezrassúdstvo",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "безрассу́дство"
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"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "amaideachd"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
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"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "foolishness",
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"word": "amaideas"
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"_dis1": "99 1 1 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
],
"word": "лу̏до̄ст"
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"sense": "foolishness",
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"feminine"
],
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"sense": "foolishness",
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"word": "dåraktighet"
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"sense": "foolishness",
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"word": "dårskap"
}
]
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"text": "The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Thames Water has become the latest object lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers.",
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "bezrazsǎdstvo",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chǔnshì",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "蠢事"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "hullutus"
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{
"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "hölmöily"
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{
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "hömpötys"
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"word": "folía"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
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"feminine"
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"word": "Fahrlässigkeit"
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"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"word": "Eselei"
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"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Unsinn"
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"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"word": "Verrücktheit"
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"word": "Wahnwitz"
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{
"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "könnyelműség"
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{
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"alt": "ぐこう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gukō",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "愚行"
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
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"word": "neprātība"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nepromíslenost",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"word": "непроми́сленост"
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"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezrassúdstvo",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
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"neuter"
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"word": "безрассу́дство"
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{
"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
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"roman": "príxotʹ",
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"word": "при́хоть"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blažʹ",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "блажь"
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{
"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "bezrassúdnyj postúpok",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "безрассу́дный посту́пок"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glúpyj postúpok",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
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"word": "глу́пый посту́пок"
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{
"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"word": "amaideachd"
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{
"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"word": "лу̏до̄ст"
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{
"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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]
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"text": "A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.",
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{
"ref": "2014 September 7, “Doddington's garden pyramid is a folly good show”, in The Daily Telegraph, London",
"text": "It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain. But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 April 18, Paul Cooper, “Europe Was Once Obsessed With Fake Dilapidated Buildings”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "A great deal of eccentricity was expressed through the trend for ruin follies. But it wasn’t only the madness of paranoid earls and fashionable landowners that was encoded in them.",
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"(architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons."
],
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"_dis1": "0 1 95 4",
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"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
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"word": "folly"
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"_dis1": "0 1 95 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "follie"
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{
"_dis1": "0 1 95 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "folie"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 95 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zierbau"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 95 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Prunkbau"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 95 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stravaganza"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 95 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"word": "unicum"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 95 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eccentricità"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 95 4",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "при́хоть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blažʹ",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "блажь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezrassúdnyj postúpok",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "безрассу́дный посту́пок"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glúpyj postúpok",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "глу́пый посту́пок"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "amaideachd"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "лу̏до̄ст"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "lȕdōst"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "folly"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "follie"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "folie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zierbau"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Prunkbau"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stravaganza"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"word": "unicum"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eccentricità"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"word": "edificio decorativo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "clădire ornamentală"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capricho"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fåfänga"
}
],
"word": "folly"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰel- (blow)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɒli",
"Rhymes:English/ɒli/2 syllables",
"en:Buildings"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "follies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "follying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "follied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "follied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"fol‧ly"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002, Richard Kilroy O'Malley, Hobo: A Depression Odyssey, page 104",
"text": "\"Anybody got the makin's?\" he said. \"That's one hell of a thick bunch of canvas, but I follied the seam.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Honor Molloy, Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage, Boston, M.A.: Gemma, page 43",
"text": "Howandever, at the selfsame time, there was a gang of fellas from the valley of kings follying the very same pointy star. And didn't that pointy star point them king-fellas in the direction of Mary's cowstable.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To follow."
],
"links": [
[
"follow",
"follow#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal) To follow."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɑli/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɒli/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒli"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-folly.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-us-folly.ogg/En-us-folly.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-us-folly.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "folly"
}
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