"gold-brick" meaning in All languages combined

See gold-brick on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: gold-bricks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gold-brick (plural gold-bricks)
  1. (usually attributive) Alternative form of goldbrick Tags: alt-of, alternative, attributive, usually Alternative form of: goldbrick
    Sense id: en-gold-brick-en-noun-~YpclK~m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 51

Verb [English]

Forms: gold-bricks [present, singular, third-person], gold-bricking [participle, present], gold-bricked [participle, past], gold-bricked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} gold-brick (third-person singular simple present gold-bricks, present participle gold-bricking, simple past and past participle gold-bricked)
  1. Alternative form of goldbrick Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: goldbrick
    Sense id: en-gold-brick-en-verb-~YpclK~m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 51

Inflected forms

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