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"ref": "2009, Sydöstran (newspaper), December 2",
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"head": ""
},
"expansion": "ragga (present raggar, preterite raggade, supine raggat, imperative ragga)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "ragg"
},
{
"word": "raggare"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swedish dialectal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"to go around untidy, uncombed, hair hanging down"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialect, Småland: gå å ragga) to go around untidy, uncombed, hair hanging down"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Swedish dialectal terms",
"Swedish reflexive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to regret"
],
"links": [
[
"regret",
"regret"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(reflexive, dialect, Hälsingland: ragga sej) to regret"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"reflexive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to bristle"
],
"links": [
[
"bristle",
"bristle"
]
],
"qualifier": "ragga till",
"raw_glosses": [
"(ragga till) to bristle"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Swedish terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He was hitting on her",
"text": "Han raggade på henne",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "They were driving around trying to pick up women",
"text": "De åkte runt och raggade",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "to pick someone up",
"text": "att ragga upp någon",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to search, look for, hit on, pick up (women, in cars)"
],
"links": [
[
"search",
"search"
],
[
"look for",
"look for"
],
[
"hit on",
"hit on"
],
[
"pick up",
"pick up"
]
],
"senseid": [
"sv:hiton"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "stöta"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Swedish terms with quotations",
"Swedish terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "We're trying to pick up sponsors",
"text": "Vi försöker ragga sponsorer",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Sydöstran (newspaper), December 2",
"roman": "Blekinge Institute of Technology recruits students in Latvia and Lithuania",
"text": "BTH raggar studenter i Lettland och Litauen",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to search, look for, recruit (sponsors, supporters, new members)"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) to search, look for, recruit (sponsors, supporters, new members)"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"word": "ragga"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: dialect, Småland: gå å ragga",
"path": [
"ragga"
],
"section": "Swedish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "ragga",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: dialect, Småland: gå å ragga",
"path": [
"ragga"
],
"section": "Swedish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "ragga",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: reflexive, dialect, Hälsingland: ragga sej",
"path": [
"ragga"
],
"section": "Swedish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "ragga",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: reflexive, dialect, Hälsingland: ragga sej",
"path": [
"ragga"
],
"section": "Swedish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "ragga",
"trace": ""
}
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