"pick-me-up" meaning in All languages combined

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cocktail"
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          "_dis": "59 41",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Beverages",
          "orig": "en:Beverages",
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            "Drinking",
            "Food and drink",
            "Liquids",
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          "ref": "1873, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VI, in Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 253:",
          "text": "Adonis calls for a ‘pick-me-up’ before he has strength enough to answer a billet-doux from Venus. Adonis has not the strength to get nobly drunk, but his delicate constitution requires stimulants, and he is always tippling.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, Edward Spencer, Cakes & Ale:",
          "text": "Make half-a-pint of beef-tea in a tumbler with this extract. Put the tumbler in a refrigerator for an hour, then add a liqueur-glassful of old brandy, with just a dust of cayenne. This is one of the very best pick-me-ups known to the faculty.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:",
          "text": "\"I'm feeling fine today,\" pursued Gideon, advancing a step and so bringing himself about halfway to the table. \"Had a couple of pick-me-ups and a fat breakfast. How are you?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "In fact I did not feel good. I was suffering from the morning sickness of the steady, heavy drinker. What I needed was a pick-me-up, a bracer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "I have had occasion, I fancy, to speak before now of these pick-me-ups of Jeeves’s and their effect on a fellow who is hanging to life by a thread on the morning after. What they consist of, I couldn’t tell you. He says some kind of sauce, the yolk of a raw egg and a dash of red pepper, but nothing will convince me that the thing doesn’t go much deeper than that.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Stephen King, chapter 5, in The Shining:",
          "text": "God, he needed a drink. Just a little pick-me-up to put things in their true perspective— […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer."
      ],
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          "drink",
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          "alcoholic",
          "alcoholic"
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        [
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          "cure",
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          "restorative",
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          "tonic",
          "tonic"
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        [
          "bracer",
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        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ],
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "sredstvo protiv mahmurluk",
          "sense": "drink",
          "word": "средство против махмурлук"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "drink",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "uncommon"
          ],
          "word": "Mageneinrenker"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "drink",
          "word": "szíverősítő"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tonizírujuščeje srédstvo",
          "sense": "drink",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "тонизи́рующее сре́дство"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "drink",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "återställare"
        }
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          "ref": "1919, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Sheep”, in R[othay] R[eynolds], editor, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers. […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "A month or so of winter sport seemed a desirable pick-me-up after the strenuous work and crowning discomfiture of the election.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 April, Nancy Webster, Richard Woodworth, Inn Spots & Special Places in New England: A Guide to Where to Go, Stay, Eat and Enjoy in 30 of the Region’s Choicest Areas, West Hartford, Conn.: Wood Pond Press, published May 1988 (3rd printing), →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "Those Austrian desserts we all know and love, sacher torte, linzer torte, apfelstrudel and the like, as well as Bavarian chocolate, peach torte and jailhouse pie, are $2.25 or $2.50 and — with a cup of cafe mocha — a delightful afternoon pick-me-up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Tristan de Chalain, Wolf’s Paw, Eloquent Books, →ISBN, page 249:",
          "text": "Have to keep reminding myself that I’m also a happily married woman—but it is nice to be noticed as a woman for a change (and to have my fantasy life given such a pick-me-up).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Christina Schofield, My Life and Lesser Catastrophes: An Unflinchingly Honest Journey of Faith, Chosen Books, →ISBN, page 107:",
          "text": "Meeting Marlene had been such a pick-me-up, but at the same time, it was a grim reminder that Allen was not healed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Cat Ellington, Memoirs in Gogyohka: A Book of Short Poems and Memoirs, Chicago, Ill.: Quill Pen Ink Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Glen Medeiros and Bobby Brown are on KDWB right now performing She Ain’t Worth It, and it is such a pick-me-up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Dan Gookin, Running For Local Office For Dummies®, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 231:",
          "text": "Nothing brightens your day like an unexpected check in the mail, letter to the editor, or sign of support from a strong quarter. Such a pick-me-up is welcome, and frequently happens at a time where you most need a boost.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Annette Hannah, The Cosy Little Cupcake Van, Hachette, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Carrie’s cats have been such a pick-me-up. There’s always one that needs a cuddle and there’s a lot to be said for fur therapy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that improves one's mood."
      ],
      "id": "en-pick-me-up-en-noun-tdvvmfot"
    }
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  "word": "pick-me-up"
}

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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
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  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
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      "word": "cocktail"
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    {
      "word": "hair of the dog"
    }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1873, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VI, in Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 253:",
          "text": "Adonis calls for a ‘pick-me-up’ before he has strength enough to answer a billet-doux from Venus. Adonis has not the strength to get nobly drunk, but his delicate constitution requires stimulants, and he is always tippling.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, Edward Spencer, Cakes & Ale:",
          "text": "Make half-a-pint of beef-tea in a tumbler with this extract. Put the tumbler in a refrigerator for an hour, then add a liqueur-glassful of old brandy, with just a dust of cayenne. This is one of the very best pick-me-ups known to the faculty.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:",
          "text": "\"I'm feeling fine today,\" pursued Gideon, advancing a step and so bringing himself about halfway to the table. \"Had a couple of pick-me-ups and a fat breakfast. How are you?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "In fact I did not feel good. I was suffering from the morning sickness of the steady, heavy drinker. What I needed was a pick-me-up, a bracer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "I have had occasion, I fancy, to speak before now of these pick-me-ups of Jeeves’s and their effect on a fellow who is hanging to life by a thread on the morning after. What they consist of, I couldn’t tell you. He says some kind of sauce, the yolk of a raw egg and a dash of red pepper, but nothing will convince me that the thing doesn’t go much deeper than that.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Stephen King, chapter 5, in The Shining:",
          "text": "God, he needed a drink. Just a little pick-me-up to put things in their true perspective— […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "A drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer."
      ],
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        "(informal) A drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer."
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          "ref": "1919, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Sheep”, in R[othay] R[eynolds], editor, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers. […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "A month or so of winter sport seemed a desirable pick-me-up after the strenuous work and crowning discomfiture of the election.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 April, Nancy Webster, Richard Woodworth, Inn Spots & Special Places in New England: A Guide to Where to Go, Stay, Eat and Enjoy in 30 of the Region’s Choicest Areas, West Hartford, Conn.: Wood Pond Press, published May 1988 (3rd printing), →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "Those Austrian desserts we all know and love, sacher torte, linzer torte, apfelstrudel and the like, as well as Bavarian chocolate, peach torte and jailhouse pie, are $2.25 or $2.50 and — with a cup of cafe mocha — a delightful afternoon pick-me-up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Tristan de Chalain, Wolf’s Paw, Eloquent Books, →ISBN, page 249:",
          "text": "Have to keep reminding myself that I’m also a happily married woman—but it is nice to be noticed as a woman for a change (and to have my fantasy life given such a pick-me-up).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Christina Schofield, My Life and Lesser Catastrophes: An Unflinchingly Honest Journey of Faith, Chosen Books, →ISBN, page 107:",
          "text": "Meeting Marlene had been such a pick-me-up, but at the same time, it was a grim reminder that Allen was not healed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Cat Ellington, Memoirs in Gogyohka: A Book of Short Poems and Memoirs, Chicago, Ill.: Quill Pen Ink Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Glen Medeiros and Bobby Brown are on KDWB right now performing She Ain’t Worth It, and it is such a pick-me-up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Dan Gookin, Running For Local Office For Dummies®, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 231:",
          "text": "Nothing brightens your day like an unexpected check in the mail, letter to the editor, or sign of support from a strong quarter. Such a pick-me-up is welcome, and frequently happens at a time where you most need a boost.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Annette Hannah, The Cosy Little Cupcake Van, Hachette, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Carrie’s cats have been such a pick-me-up. There’s always one that needs a cuddle and there’s a lot to be said for fur therapy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that improves one's mood."
      ]
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sredstvo protiv mahmurluk",
      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "средство против махмурлук"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "uncommon"
      ],
      "word": "Mageneinrenker"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "szíverősítő"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tonizírujuščeje srédstvo",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "тонизи́рующее сре́дство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "drink",
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      "word": "återställare"
    }
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}