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{ "etymology_text": "From Mau Mau, the name of a group of anti-British insurgents in Kenya, who were noted in Europe for their (alleged) extreme violence and brutality.", "forms": [ { "form": "mau-maus", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "mau-mauing", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "mau-maued", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "mau-maued", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "mau-mau (third-person singular simple present mau-maus, present participle mau-mauing, simple past and past participle mau-maued)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" } ], "derived": [ { "word": "mau-mauer" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2005, Béla Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West", "text": "It was my first experience with the phenomenon that would later be called \"mau-mauing the flack catcher.\"", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize." ], "id": "en-mau-mau-en-verb-3zXkL-QQ", "links": [ [ "menace", "menace" ], [ "intimidate", "intimidate" ], [ "harass", "harass" ], [ "terrorize", "terrorize" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] } ], "word": "mau-mau" } { "forms": [ { "form": "mau-maus", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "m" }, "expansion": "mau-mau m (plural mau-maus)", "name": "ca-noun" } ], "lang": "Catalan", "lang_code": "ca", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Catalan entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "ca", "name": "Cocktails", "orig": "ca:Cocktails", "parents": [ "Alcoholic beverages", "Beverages", "Recreational drugs", "Drinking", "Food and drink", "Liquids", "Drugs", "Human behaviour", "All topics", "Matter", "Pharmacology", "Human", "Fundamental", "Chemistry", "Nature", "Biochemistry", "Medicine", "Sciences", "Biology" ], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "a cocktail of sweet vermouth and soda" ], "id": "en-mau-mau-ca-noun-jwH-3PN2", "links": [ [ "cocktail", "cocktail" ], [ "sweet", "sweet" ], [ "vermouth", "vermouth" ], [ "soda", "soda" ] ], "tags": [ "masculine" ], "wikipedia": [ "ca:mau-mau" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "[məwˈmaw]", "tags": [ "Balearic", "Central" ] }, { "ipa": "[mawˈmaw]", "tags": [ "Valencian" ] } ], "word": "mau-mau" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "mau-maus", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "m" }, "expansion": "mau-mau m (plural mau-maus)", "name": "ca-noun" } ], "lang": "Catalan", "lang_code": "ca", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Catalan countable nouns", "Catalan entries with incorrect language header", "Catalan lemmas", "Catalan masculine nouns", "Catalan multiword terms", "Catalan nouns", "Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation", "ca:Cocktails" ], "glosses": [ "a cocktail of sweet vermouth and soda" ], "links": [ [ "cocktail", "cocktail" ], [ "sweet", "sweet" ], [ "vermouth", "vermouth" ], [ "soda", "soda" ] ], "tags": [ "masculine" ], "wikipedia": [ "ca:mau-mau" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "[məwˈmaw]", "tags": [ "Balearic", "Central" ] }, { "ipa": "[mawˈmaw]", "tags": [ "Valencian" ] } ], "word": "mau-mau" } { "derived": [ { "word": "mau-mauer" } ], "etymology_text": "From Mau Mau, the name of a group of anti-British insurgents in Kenya, who were noted in Europe for their (alleged) extreme violence and brutality.", "forms": [ { "form": "mau-maus", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "mau-mauing", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "mau-maued", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "mau-maued", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "mau-mau (third-person singular simple present mau-maus, present participle mau-mauing, simple past and past participle mau-maued)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English terms with quotations", "English transitive verbs", "English verbs" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2005, Béla Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West", "text": "It was my first experience with the phenomenon that would later be called \"mau-mauing the flack catcher.\"", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize." ], "links": [ [ "menace", "menace" ], [ "intimidate", "intimidate" ], [ "harass", "harass" ], [ "terrorize", "terrorize" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] } ], "word": "mau-mau" }
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