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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɛtʃ",
"Rhymes:English/ɛtʃ/1 syllable",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"forms": [
{
"form": "letches",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "letching",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "letched",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "letched",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "letch (third-person singular simple present letches, present participle letching, simple past and past participle letched)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "leach"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of leach"
],
"links": [
[
"leach",
"leach#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/lɛt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛtʃ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-letch.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-letch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-letch.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-letch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-letch.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lech"
}
],
"word": "letch"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "enm",
"3": "leche",
"t": "an infusion"
},
"expansion": "Middle English leche (“an infusion”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English leche (“an infusion”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "letch",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Yola",
"lang_code": "yol",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Yola entries with incorrect language header",
"Yola lemmas",
"Yola nouns",
"Yola terms derived from Middle English",
"Yola terms inherited from Middle English",
"Yola terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Yola terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "A drink of small beer.",
"ref": "1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY",
"text": "Ty o' letch.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"small beer"
],
"links": [
[
"beer",
"beer"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/lɛt͡ʃ/"
}
],
"word": "letch"
}
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