See petulant on Wiktionary
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"neġacʻkot", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "նեղացկոտ" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "sprihav", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "сприхав" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "razdraznitelen", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "раздразнителен" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "yì nù", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "易怒" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "popudlivý" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "luimig" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "prikkelbaar" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "zenuwachtig" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "petola" }, { "code": "fo", "lang": "Faroese", "sense": 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annoyed", "word": "nervös" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "launisch" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "launenhaft" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "verdrießlich" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "borstig" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "bockig" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "zickig" }, { "code": "ht", "lang": "Haitian Creole", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "agresif" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "sértődékeny" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": "ingerlékeny" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "easily irritated or annoyed", "word": 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with incorrect language header", "Romanian lemmas", "Romanian literary terms", "Romanian terms borrowed from French", "Romanian terms derived from French" ], "glosses": [ "exuberant, lively" ], "links": [ [ "exuberant", "exuberant" ], [ "lively", "lively" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(literary) exuberant, lively" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "vioi" }, { "word": "zburdalnic" } ], "tags": [ "literary", "masculine", "neuter" ] } ], "word": "petulant" }
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