See mudlark on Wiktionary
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now rare, chiefly historical) One who scavenges in river or harbor mud for items of value, especially in London."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"historical"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published 2007, page 104:",
"text": "the children were nothing like inert: a large population of junior mudlarks, so long unwashed that you could hardly make them out, climbed among the ruins, cheerfully playing the games that all children play – pushing wheels with sticks, flipping rusty lids and bottle caps in makeshift tiddlywinks.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A child who plays in the mud; a child that spends most of its time in the streets, a street urchin."
],
"links": [
[
"street urchin",
"street urchin"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang"
],
"glosses": [
"A soldier of the Royal Engineers."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A soldier of the Royal Engineers."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"Regional English"
],
"glosses": [
"Any of various birds that are found in muddy places or build their nests with mud, especially Anthus petrosus and Alauda arvensis."
],
"links": [
[
"regional",
"regional#English"
],
[
"Anthus petrosus",
"Anthus petrosus#Translingual"
],
[
"Alauda arvensis",
"Alauda arvensis#Translingual"
]
],
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"(UK, regional) Any of various birds that are found in muddy places or build their nests with mud, especially Anthus petrosus and Alauda arvensis."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"regional"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian English"
],
"glosses": [
"The Grallina cyanoleuca that builds its nest with mud into a bowl-like shape."
],
"links": [
[
"Grallina cyanoleuca",
"Grallina cyanoleuca#Translingual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia) The Grallina cyanoleuca that builds its nest with mud into a bowl-like shape."
],
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A racehorse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks."
],
"links": [
[
"racehorse",
"racehorse"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mudder"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌdlɑːk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/En-au-mudlark.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"mudlark"
],
"word": "mudlark"
}
{
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"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Corvoid birds",
"en:Horses",
"en:Larks",
"en:People",
"en:Pigs"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mud",
"3": "lark"
},
"expansion": "mud + lark",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From mud + lark.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mudlarks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mudlarking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "mudlarked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mudlarked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "mudlark (third-person singular simple present mudlarks, present participle mudlarking, simple past and past participle mudlarked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To scavenge in river or harbor mud for items of value."
],
"links": [
[
"scavenge",
"scavenge"
],
[
"river",
"river"
],
[
"mud",
"mud"
],
[
"value",
"value"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To scavenge in river or harbor mud for items of value."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌdlɑːk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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"audio": "en-au-mudlark.ogg",
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}
],
"wikipedia": [
"mudlark"
],
"word": "mudlark"
}
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