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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "sagi jag",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "սագի ձագ"
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"roman": "pʻalaz",
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"neuter"
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"neuter"
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"neuter"
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"word": "гъсе"
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"sense": "young goose",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "young goose",
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"neuter"
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"code": "myv",
"lang": "Erzya",
"roman": "ľuľaka",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "люляка"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "anserido"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "hanhenpoikanen"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "hanhenpoika"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oison"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"literary",
"masculine"
],
"word": "oiselet"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gänseküken"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young goose",
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"neuter"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Gänschen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young goose",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "Gössel"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "junge Gans"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "אווזון"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "kisliba"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "góislín"
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "éan gé"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ochetto"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ochetta"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "papero"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "saekkigeowi",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "새끼거위"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "žąsiukas"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "guvče",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гувче"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eean guiy"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "pī kuihi"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "mic",
"english": "domestic",
"lang": "Mi'kmaq",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"animate"
],
"word": "tagali'ji'j"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "goslyng"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gåsunge"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "nn",
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"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "gåsunge"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "gąsię"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
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"word": "gęsię"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "gansinho"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "boboc"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gusjónok",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "гусёнок"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "isean geòidh"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pàpara"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "paparuni"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "húsa"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
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"word": "húsatko"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ansarino"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gässling"
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"word": "gåsunge"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "badi"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "husenjá",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "гусеня́"
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"roman": "husenjátko",
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
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"sense": "young goose",
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"word": "cyw gŵydd"
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"_dis1": "97 3 0",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "gendzl",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "גענדזל"
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"ref": "1862 April 19, “Mediums Under Other Names”, in All the Year Round, volume 7, page 132",
"text": "Two stout woodmen with difficulty cut down this tree, the chips of which flew far and wide about the hall; but at my command my two green goslings carried away the fragments without any difficulty.",
"type": "quotation"
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"word": "domme gans"
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"_dis1": "3 96 1",
"code": "de",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"_dis1": "3 96 1",
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"masculine"
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"_dis1": "3 96 1",
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"sense": "callow, or foolish and naive, young person",
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"ref": "1797, Botanical Dialogues, Between Hortensia and Her Four Children, page 8",
"text": "These Aments (we must no longer call them catkins) are composed both of male and female flowers; what Henry calls goslings in spring are the Aments of the willow tree ; his green goslings are female Aments , and , when mature , have the appearance of little tufts of wool, which appearance is caused by the downy material that crowns their feeds;",
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"ref": "1893, “Tree Proverbs”, in The Journal of Education, volume 37, page 170",
"text": "When the oak puts on his goslings grey 'Tis time to sow barley night or day.",
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"ref": "1901, Edward North Buxton, Epping Forest, page 116",
"text": "The common Sallow or Goat Willow (Salix caprea) forms a small bush in rough places and the hollows left by old gravel-pits. It produces the “goslings” which children are fond of gathering at Easter .",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2018, John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood",
"text": "In the afternoon: cut back the crack willow around the pool; the fluffy flowers fall on the water. Locally, the flowers are known as 'goslings'. Water. It has no motion of its own; it is the mechanic betrayer of other forces. the breeze gently drifts the goslings to the far shore.",
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"ipa": "/ɡɑzlɪŋ/",
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"US"
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"ref": "1901, Edward North Buxton, Epping Forest, page 116",
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"ref": "2018, John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood",
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "sagi jag",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "սագի ձագ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
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"sense": "young goose",
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{
"code": "be",
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"sense": "young goose",
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "be",
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"neuter"
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gǎse",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гъсе"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "godhik"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "house"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gansje"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ganzenjong"
},
{
"code": "myv",
"lang": "Erzya",
"roman": "ľuľaka",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "люляка"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "anserido"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "hanhenpoikanen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "hanhenpoika"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oison"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"literary",
"masculine"
],
"word": "oiselet"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gänseküken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young goose",
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],
"word": "Gänslein"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young goose",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "Gänschen"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "young goose",
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"word": "Gössel"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young goose",
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],
"word": "junge Gans"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "אווזון"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "kisliba"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "young goose",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "éan gé"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "young goose",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "young goose",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "young goose",
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "young goose",
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "saekkigeowi",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "새끼거위"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "žąsiukas"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гувче"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eean guiy"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "pī kuihi"
},
{
"code": "mic",
"english": "domestic",
"lang": "Mi'kmaq",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"animate"
],
"word": "tagali'ji'j"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "young goose",
"word": "goslyng"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gåsunge"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gåsunge"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gąsię"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gęsię"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gansinho"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boboc"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gusjónok",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "гусёнок"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "isean geòidh"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pàpara"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "paparuni"
},
{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "húsa"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"neuter"
],
"word": "húsatko"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ansarino"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gässling"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gåsunge"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "badi"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "husenjá",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гусеня́"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "husenjátko",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гусеня́тко"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "husjátko",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гуся́тко"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cyw gŵydd"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "gendzl",
"sense": "young goose",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "גענדזל"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "callow, or foolish and naive, young person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "domme gans"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "callow, or foolish and naive, young person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Grünschnabel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "callow, or foolish and naive, young person",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Gelbschnabel"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "callow, or foolish and naive, young person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ochetta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glupýš",
"sense": "callow, or foolish and naive, young person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "глупы́ш"
}
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