See hunaw on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Compare hinawnaw.\nThe idiomatic sense is from The Bible's account of Pontius Pilate washing his hands and refusing to condemn Jesus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hinaw",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ceb",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "hunaw",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"hu‧naw"
],
"lang": "Cebuano",
"lang_code": "ceb",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "47 53",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ceb",
"name": "Hygiene",
"orig": "ceb:Hygiene",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to wash one's hands or another's"
],
"id": "en-hunaw-ceb-verb-r4A-AsLa",
"links": [
[
"wash",
"wash"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "30 70",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Cebuano entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 53",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ceb",
"name": "Hygiene",
"orig": "ceb:Hygiene",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to wash one's hands of; to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with"
],
"id": "en-hunaw-ceb-verb-b3wHJDq0",
"links": [
[
"wash one's hands of",
"wash one's hands of"
],
[
"absolve",
"absolve"
],
[
"responsibility",
"responsibility"
],
[
"future",
"future"
],
[
"blame",
"blame"
],
[
"refuse",
"refuse"
],
[
"involvement",
"involvement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) to wash one's hands of; to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "hunaw"
}
{
"categories": [
"Cebuano entries with incorrect language header",
"Cebuano lemmas",
"Cebuano verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"ceb:Hygiene"
],
"etymology_text": "Compare hinawnaw.\nThe idiomatic sense is from The Bible's account of Pontius Pilate washing his hands and refusing to condemn Jesus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hinaw",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ceb",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "hunaw",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"hu‧naw"
],
"lang": "Cebuano",
"lang_code": "ceb",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to wash one's hands or another's"
],
"links": [
[
"wash",
"wash"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Cebuano idioms"
],
"glosses": [
"to wash one's hands of; to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with"
],
"links": [
[
"wash one's hands of",
"wash one's hands of"
],
[
"absolve",
"absolve"
],
[
"responsibility",
"responsibility"
],
[
"future",
"future"
],
[
"blame",
"blame"
],
[
"refuse",
"refuse"
],
[
"involvement",
"involvement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) to wash one's hands of; to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "hunaw"
}
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