See patter on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "barabanja",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"word": "барабаня"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tropolja",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"word": "трополя"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
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],
"word": "ťukat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "bubnovat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "pleskat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"word": "rapsahdella"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "barabánitʹ",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "бараба́нить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"word": "golpetear"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "barabanyty",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"word": "барабанити"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "dribotity",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"word": "дріботіти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tarabanyty",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"word": "тарабанити"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "stukaty",
"sense": "to make irregularly repeated sounds",
"word": "стукати"
}
],
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"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard):",
"text": "Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.",
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{
"ref": "2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 5, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN:",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "skoropogovorka",
"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "скоропоговорка"
},
{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "žvanění"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "řeči"
},
{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "řečičky"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"word": "paukutus"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"word": "Geplapper"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jargão"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gíria"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "скорогово́рка"
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"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
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"word": "говоро́к"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rollo"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "glib and rapid speech",
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}
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"To pray."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To pray."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dǎrdorja",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "дърдоря"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "paukuttaa"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "plappern"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "pörög a nyelve"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "taratóritʹ",
"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "тарато́рить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
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],
"word": "говори́ть скорогово́ркой"
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"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
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"word": "треща́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to speak glibly and rapidly",
"word": "parlotear"
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