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"ref": "1968 October 2, “Kroger”, in The Salem News, volume 80, number 246, Salem, Oh., page 12, column 3:",
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"ref": "1969, “Guide to Buying Fruit”, in “Buying, Storing, and Preparing”, in Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book, New York, N.Y.; Des Moines, Ia.: Better Homes and Gardens Books, published 1970 (2nd printing), page 146, column 1:",
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"ref": "1969 May 10, Cleveland Amory, “Review: The Galloping Gourmet”, in Merrill Panitt, editor, TV Guide, volume 17, number 19 (841 overall), Radnor, Pa.: Triangle Publications, Inc., →ISSN, page 32, columns 1–2:",
"text": "This particular program, he [Graham Kerr] told us, would be about the finest dish in the world—which turned out to be called Veal Cutlets Yerex. Natch. For this you apparently needed three kiwi fruits, but the idea infuriated him. “It’s not a kiwi fruit,” he told us. “That’s just the stupid, vulgar, idiotic, irresponsible name the New Zealand government has given it. It’s a Chinese gooseberry—obviously.”",
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"ref": "1985, Samuel Shem [pseudonym; Stephen Joseph Bergman], chapter 8, in Fine: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s/Marek, →ISBN, page 76:",
"text": "Like you? You want me to see the world as you do? Pricks as bananas, twats as tacos, and tits as mangoes, kiwi fruits, and ten different kinds of melon?! At the aquarium, do you see fish? At the funhouse, do you have fun? Making love?—fruit salad!",
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"ref": "1987, Christina Hardyment, “Picking up Gold and Silver”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, page 100:",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kívi",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ки́ви"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "киви"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kivi"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kivi"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kiva"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "etymological of the bird",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kiwi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kivi"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "kiwi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kiwi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kiwifrukt"
},
{
"code": "syl",
"lang": "Sylheti",
"roman": "kiui fol",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "ꠇꠤꠃꠤ ꠚꠟ"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "kiwi"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "bungang kiwi"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "pacalippaḻam",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "பசலிப்பழம்"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "gii-wîi",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "กีวี"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "sprel kham",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "སྤྲེལ་ཁམ"
},
{
"code": "ti",
"lang": "Tigrinya",
"roman": "kiwi",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "ኪዊ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "kivi"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "maymun shaptuli",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "مايمۇن شاپتۇلى"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "mixutaw",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "مىخۇتاۋ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "trái ki wi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "trái dương đào"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ciwi"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "kivi",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "קיווי"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "kivifrukht",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "קיוויפֿרוכט"
}
],
"word": "kiwi fruit"
}
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