"prig" meaning in All languages combined

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "parish prig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "priggery"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "priggish"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "priggishly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "priggism"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "prig and buz"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "thief taker",
      "word": "prig napper"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "prig-star"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "work on the prig"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "UK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses (\"tinker\" and \"thief\"), as hyponyms of \"undesirable person\", may have informed later senses (\"conceited person\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prigs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "prigger"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "prigman"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "28 6 22 19 14 0 10",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
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        {
          "ref": "1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode, act 3, scene 3",
          "text": "What spruce prig is that?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Hopeless Case”, in Doctor Birch",
          "text": "I have always had a regard for dunces; — those of my own school-days were amongst the pleasantest of the fellows, and have turned out by no means the dullest in life; whereas many a youth who could turn off Latin hexameters by the yard, and construe Greek quite glibly, is no better than a feeble prig now, with not a pennyworth more brains than were in his head before his beard grew.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner."
      ],
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        [
          "deliberately",
          "deliberately"
        ],
        [
          "superior",
          "superior"
        ],
        [
          "conformity",
          "conformity"
        ],
        [
          "propriety",
          "propriety"
        ],
        [
          "arrogant",
          "arrogant"
        ],
        [
          "smug",
          "smug"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "goody-goody"
        },
        {
          "word": "prude"
        },
        {
          "word": "puritan"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pedant",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "педант"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "puntičkář"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "povýšenec"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "moralista"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "puritán"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bégueule"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Tugendbold"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Musterknabe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "word": "whakakake"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "rezonjór",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "резонёр"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 2 6 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
          "word": "meapilas"
        }
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1822, Thomas Dolby, Benchiana, page 67",
          "text": "A rap now at the door made all resound, / And in two bouncing blowings did rebound, / With two flash-men, a dandy, and a prig', / With whom they had been running of the rig.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, page 140",
          "text": "The manner of the scholar had nearly disappeared; still more the manner of the drawing-room young man. A prig would have said that he had lost his culture, and a prude that he had become coarse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A conceited dandy; a fop."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "dandy",
          "dandy"
        ],
        [
          "fop",
          "fop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dandy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English Thieves' Cant",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors",
          "text": "These droncken Tynckers, called also Prygges.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tinker."
      ],
      "id": "en-prig-en-noun-cabLJ3bi",
      "links": [
        [
          "tinker",
          "tinker"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, archaic, thieves' cant) A tinker."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "archaic"
      ]
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1890, William McGonagall, The Christmas Goose",
          "text": "But a policeman captur'd the naughty boy, / And gave the goose to Smiggs, / And said he was greatly bother'd / By a set of juvenile prigs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A petty thief or pickpocket."
      ],
      "id": "en-prig-en-noun-IlBhzUIQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "pickpocket",
          "pickpocket"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, archaic, thieves' cant) A petty thief or pickpocket."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thief"
        },
        {
          "word": "pickpocket"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "archaic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "džebčija",
          "sense": "a petty thief",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "джебчия"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "a petty thief",
          "word": "zloděj"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "voriška",
          "sense": "a petty thief",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "воришка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a petty thief",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kokošar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a petty thief",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sitni lopov"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɹɪɡ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪɡ"
    },
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        "Australia"
      ],
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  "etymology_text": "UK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses (\"tinker\" and \"thief\"), as hyponyms of \"undesirable person\", may have informed later senses (\"conceited person\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prigs",
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    },
    {
      "form": "prigging",
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    },
    {
      "form": "prigged",
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        {
          "text": "to prig a handkerchief",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1591, Robert Greene, The Second and Last Part of Conny-catching",
          "text": "Now, this Trailer he bestrides the horse which he priggeth, and saddles and bridles him as orderly as if he were his own, and then carieth him far from the place of his breed, and ther sels him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1622, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, published 1706, Scene 2, page 71",
          "text": "Higgen hath prig'd the Prancers in his Days",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1890, William Clark Russell, An Ocean Tragedy, volume 1, page 204",
          "text": "If she'd ha' taken herself off and stopped at that I dunno as I should have any occasion to grumble; but she prigged the furniture that I'd laid in agin getting married.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To filch or steal."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated) To filch or steal."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cozen"
        },
        {
          "word": "mill"
        },
        {
          "word": "purloin"
        },
        {
          "word": "steal"
        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To ride."
      ],
      "id": "en-prig-en-verb-QyJb9ajW",
      "links": [
        [
          "ride",
          "ride"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 34",
          "text": "Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's prig in sport.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To copulate."
      ],
      "id": "en-prig-en-verb-LeK-bcd8",
      "links": [
        [
          "copulate",
          "copulate"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sleep with"
        },
        {
          "word": "copulate with"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/pɹɪɡ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪɡ"
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      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "prig"
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  "etymology_text": "Of unknown origin.",
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      "form": "prigs",
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          "ref": "1513, Douglas, Gavin, Eneados",
          "text": "Sum treitcheoure crynis the cunye, and kepis corne stakkis; Sum prig penny, sum pyke thank with preny promit.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
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          "text": "Men wha grew wise priggin owre hops and raisins,",
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    {
      "word": "parish prig"
    },
    {
      "word": "priggery"
    },
    {
      "word": "priggish"
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    {
      "word": "priggishly"
    },
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      "word": "priggism"
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    {
      "word": "prig and buz"
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      "english": "thief taker",
      "word": "prig napper"
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          "ref": "1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode, act 3, scene 3",
          "text": "What spruce prig is that?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Hopeless Case”, in Doctor Birch",
          "text": "I have always had a regard for dunces; — those of my own school-days were amongst the pleasantest of the fellows, and have turned out by no means the dullest in life; whereas many a youth who could turn off Latin hexameters by the yard, and construe Greek quite glibly, is no better than a feeble prig now, with not a pennyworth more brains than were in his head before his beard grew.",
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        "A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner."
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        {
          "word": "goody-goody"
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        {
          "word": "prude"
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          "word": "puritan"
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, page 140",
          "text": "The manner of the scholar had nearly disappeared; still more the manner of the drawing-room young man. A prig would have said that he had lost his culture, and a prude that he had become coarse.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A conceited dandy; a fop."
      ],
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        "(archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop."
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          "text": "These droncken Tynckers, called also Prygges.",
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      ],
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        "A tinker."
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        "(British, archaic, thieves' cant) A tinker."
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        "British",
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          "text": "But a policeman captur'd the naughty boy, / And gave the goose to Smiggs, / And said he was greatly bother'd / By a set of juvenile prigs.",
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        "(British, archaic, thieves' cant) A petty thief or pickpocket."
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "pedant",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "педант"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "puntičkář"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "povýšenec"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "moralista"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "puritán"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "bégueule"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Tugendbold"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Musterknabe"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "word": "whakakake"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rezonjór",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "резонёр"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
      "word": "meapilas"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "džebčija",
      "sense": "a petty thief",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "джебчия"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a petty thief",
      "word": "zloděj"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "voriška",
      "sense": "a petty thief",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "воришка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a petty thief",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kokošar"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a petty thief",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "sitni lopov"
    }
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}

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          "ref": "1591, Robert Greene, The Second and Last Part of Conny-catching",
          "text": "Now, this Trailer he bestrides the horse which he priggeth, and saddles and bridles him as orderly as if he were his own, and then carieth him far from the place of his breed, and ther sels him.",
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          "ref": "1622, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, published 1706, Scene 2, page 71",
          "text": "Higgen hath prig'd the Prancers in his Days",
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        {
          "ref": "1890, William Clark Russell, An Ocean Tragedy, volume 1, page 204",
          "text": "If she'd ha' taken herself off and stopped at that I dunno as I should have any occasion to grumble; but she prigged the furniture that I'd laid in agin getting married.",
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    {
      "glosses": [
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    },
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      "categories": [
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 34",
          "text": "Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's prig in sport.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To copulate."
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        {
          "word": "sleep with"
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