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"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1929, Air Wonder Stories",
"text": "New subscribers are the life of our party (any advertiser will tell you that) just as the regular reader of CLIPPINGS becomes the life of any party (and why not with such a supply of “nifties” and bon mots).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1950 April 8, Billboard, page 146",
"text": "Because some of the stories that the Sultana told are nifties, the plays are sometimes edited. This facilitates production and eliminates a lot of questions from the kids when they get home.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Amnon Kabatchnik, Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975, page 580",
"text": "“Miss Fletcher knows exactly what she is doing, goes about her business with gratifying swiftness and comes up with a finish worthy of one of Roald Dahl's little nifties,” wrote Douglas Watt.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A possibly risqué comic story or anecdote."
],
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[
"risqué",
"risqué"
],
[
"comic",
"comic"
],
[
"story",
"story"
],
[
"anecdote",
"anecdote"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, dated) A possibly risqué comic story or anecdote."
],
"tags": [
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"dated"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Film History, volume 17, page 195",
"text": "[…] Winfield Sheehan had pulled a nifty on the wise guys of Hollywood and the film colony in Southern California when he disappeared for a week with a print of Sunrise, the Murnau picture recently completed.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A trick."
],
"links": [
[
"trick",
"trick"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, dated) A trick."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"dated"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈnɪfti/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪfti"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "nifty"
}
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