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"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.",
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"form": "frecks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "frecking",
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"participle",
"present"
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},
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{
"ref": "1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral:",
"text": "the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To checker; to diversify."
],
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"w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909"
],
[
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"w:Merriam-Webster"
]
],
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"(transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify."
],
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]
}
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},
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"ref": "a. 1843, The Young Maxwell:",
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"(Scotland) prompt; eager"
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"word": "frack"
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"etymology_text": "Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.",
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"form": "more freck",
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},
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"word": "frack"
}
],
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}
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