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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "glamourpuss"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "puss-gentleman"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "puss moth"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "puss out"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "puss-puss"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sea-puss"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sea puss"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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},
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"4": "",
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},
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},
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{
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},
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},
{
"args": {
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"2": "pus"
},
"expansion": "Danish pus",
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},
{
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"1": "sv",
"2": "kattepus"
},
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},
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"args": {
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"2": "pus"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian pus",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "pisică"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "پیشی",
"tr": "piši"
},
"expansion": "Persian پیشی (piši)",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "ta",
"2": "பூசை"
},
"expansion": "Tamil பூசை (pūcai)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "pusa"
},
"expansion": "Tagalog pusa",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sc",
"2": "pisittu"
},
"expansion": "Sardinian pisittu",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably from Middle Low German pūs, pūskatte or Dutch poes (“puss, cat”, slang for “vulva”), ultimately from a common Germanic word for cat, perhaps ultimately imitative of a sound made to get its attention (compare Arabic بسة (bissa)).\nAkin to West Frisian poes, Low German Puus, Puuskatte, Danish pus, dialectal Swedish kattepus, Norwegian pus.\nFound also in several other European, North African and Asian languages; compare Romanian pisică, Persian پیشی (piši), Tamil பூசை (pūcai), Tagalog pusa\nand Sardinian pisittu.",
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{
"form": "pusses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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},
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"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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}
],
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"text": "Our local theatre is showing Puss in Boots.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Come here, puss! I've got some milk for you.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"A cat."
],
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[
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],
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"(informal, often as a term of address) A cat."
],
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0",
"sense": "cat",
"word": "moggie"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0",
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"word": "moggy"
}
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"countable",
"informal",
"often",
"term-of-address",
"uncountable"
]
},
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"categories": [],
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"A girl or young woman, or any child."
],
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[
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],
[
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"girl"
],
[
"woman",
"woman"
],
[
"child",
"child"
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],
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"(dated, endearing) A girl or young woman, or any child."
],
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"parents": [
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"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "24 4 32 2 1 21 5 1 11",
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"langcode": "en",
"name": "Cats",
"orig": "en:Cats",
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"Felids",
"Carnivores",
"Mammals",
"Vertebrates",
"Chordates",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 3 49 2 1 18 4 1 10",
"kind": "lifeform",
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"Lagomorphs",
"Mammals",
"Vertebrates",
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"Animals",
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"Fundamental",
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}
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, “In which is seen a more moving Spectacle, than all the Blood in the Bodies of Thwackum and Blifil and of Twenty other such, is capable of producing”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V, page 220:",
"text": "He then began to beat about, in the ſame Language, and in the ſame Manner, as if he had been beating for a Hare, and at laſt cried out, 'Soho! Puſs is not far off. Here's her Form, upon my Soul; I believe I may cry ſtole away.'",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “A Day with the Capercailzies”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 77:",
"text": "'[…] It won't kill Puss any better for that.' / \"'But, goodness gracious, what can that hare be made of?' I asked.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A hare."
],
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[
"hunting",
"hunting#Noun"
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[
"hare",
"hare"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated, hunting) A hare."
],
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"countable",
"dated",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"hunting",
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "7 2 4 30 15 10 13 4 15",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Genitalia",
"orig": "en:Genitalia",
"parents": [
"Body parts",
"Reproduction",
"Sex",
"Body",
"Anatomy",
"Life",
"All topics",
"Biology",
"Medicine",
"Nature",
"Fundamental",
"Sciences",
"Healthcare",
"Health"
],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"The vulva (female genitalia)."
],
"id": "en-puss-en-noun-zYMCQS7z",
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[
"vulva",
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],
[
"genitalia",
"genitalia"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar, slang) The vulva (female genitalia)."
],
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"countable",
"slang",
"uncountable",
"vulgar"
]
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English metonyms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "4 1 5 23 51 6 6 1 4",
"kind": "topical",
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"parents": [
"All topics",
"Reproduction",
"Fundamental",
"Life",
"Nature"
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1986, Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Bernie (Jim Belushi):",
"text": "So don't know! So, what are you gonna do? Sell your birthright for a little bit of puss?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Sex with a woman."
],
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[
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"(uncountable, vulgar, slang, metonymically) Sex with a woman."
],
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"metonymically",
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"vulgar"
]
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"name": "American English",
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Canadian English",
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"_dis": "3 8 21 1 1 37 7 1 21",
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"Entries with incorrect language header",
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"_dis": "1 12 1 0 0 62 1 0 24",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
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"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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"A coward; a wuss; someone who is unable to stand up for themselves."
],
"id": "en-puss-en-noun-qM7x0ewe",
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[
"Canada",
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],
[
"US",
"American English"
],
[
"coward",
"coward"
],
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"wuss",
"wuss"
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"(vulgar, slang, chiefly Canada, US) A coward; a wuss; someone who is unable to stand up for themselves."
],
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"countable",
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"uncountable",
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"enpr": "po͝os"
},
{
"ipa": "/pʊs/"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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"name": "der"
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"1": "en",
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"4": "",
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"tags": [
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}
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"args": {},
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{
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{
"text": "Shut your puss before I shut it for you.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 21, page 62:",
"text": "Hubbert has a rasping voice and a razory laugh, and he's busy and theatrical in the worst way — a noisy performing pro with whirlwind arms and a saturnine puss.",
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],
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"The mouth."
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[
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"(slang) The mouth."
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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"word": "cakehole"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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},
{
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{
"text": "She gave him a slap in the puss.",
"type": "example"
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],
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"The face."
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[
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],
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"(slang) The face."
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"slang"
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{
"ipa": "/pʊs/"
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"rhymes": "-ʊs"
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{
"word": "pus"
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010 Alien Purgatory page 40",
"text": "It didn't move as much, and the same teary puss leaked from its eyes."
},
{
"ref": "2012 Southern Supposition page 132",
"text": "People called him Puss Head because if you crossed him, he went to great lengths to make sure that before you died, puss leaked from your head."
},
{
"ref": "2016 When Crickets Cry page 267",
"text": "Puss leaked out from beneath white gauze on his back and trickled down his spine."
}
],
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"Alternative spelling of pus"
],
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[
"pus",
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"alt-of",
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"ipa": "/pʊs/"
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"rhymes": "-ʊs"
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{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "From pusse (“to clean, polish, plaster, render”).",
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{
"form": "pussen",
"tags": [
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pusser",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pussene",
"tags": [
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"pos": "noun",
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"polish, finery"
],
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],
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"(a layer of) plaster (mortar), plastering"
],
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"masculine"
]
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"finery"
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],
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}
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}
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"g2": "n"
},
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"pos": "noun",
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{
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{
"kind": "topical",
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"name": "Pathology",
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"Biology",
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[
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"pus",
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"(pathology) pus (yellowish fluid from infected tissue)"
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"2": "gml",
"3": "putze"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German putze",
"name": "bor"
},
{
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"1": "nn",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*bautaną",
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},
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],
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"definite",
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "puss c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-c-ar"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "puss",
"2": "pussen",
"3": "pussar",
"4": "pussarna",
"5": "puss",
"6": "pussens",
"7": "pussars",
"8": "pussarnas",
"base": "puss",
"definitions": "",
"gender": "Common"
},
"name": "sv-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A puddle, a plash."
],
"links": [
[
"puddle",
"puddle"
],
[
"plash",
"plash"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɵs/"
},
{
"audio": "Sv-en puss.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/Sv-en_puss.ogg/Sv-en_puss.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Sv-en_puss.ogg"
}
],
"word": "puss"
}
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