See scat on Wiktionary
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"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"fr:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"scat"
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"scat",
"scat#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) scat"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
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}
{
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{
"depth": 1,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shat"
},
"expansion": "English: shat",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: shat"
}
],
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{
"form": "sċāt",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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"1": "ang",
"2": "verb form",
"head": "sċāt"
},
"expansion": "sċāt",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
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"Old English non-lemma forms",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Old English verb forms",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "sċītan"
}
],
"glosses": [
"first/third-person singular preterite indicative of sċītan"
],
"links": [
[
"sċītan",
"scitan#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"indicative",
"preterite",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃɑːt/"
}
],
"word": "scat"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "noun",
"g": "m",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "scat m",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "scat m",
"name": "osx-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "skat"
}
],
"categories": [
"Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Saxon lemmas",
"Old Saxon masculine nouns",
"Old Saxon nouns",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of skat"
],
"links": [
[
"skat",
"skat#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "scat"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "en",
"3": "scat"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English scat",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English scat.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "scat m (uncountable)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Portuguese 3-syllable words",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese nouns",
"Portuguese terms borrowed from English",
"Portuguese terms derived from English",
"Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Portuguese terms with homophones",
"Portuguese terms with quotations",
"Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English",
"Portuguese uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Expand your mind; accept an animal\nTake part on a transsexual orgy\nIf you're flying through the air, what's bad about a blowjob?\nTravel in the brutal airplane of scat",
"ref": "2005, “Avião Brutal do Scat”, in WARderley, performed by U.D.R.:",
"text": "Expanda sua mente; aceite um animal\nParticipe de uma orgia transexual\nVoando pelos ares, que mal há num boquete?\nViaje no avião brutal do scat",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"scat, coprophilia (sexual interest in feces)"
],
"links": [
[
"scat",
"scat#English"
],
[
"coprophilia",
"coprophilia"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "coprofilia"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/isˈkɛ.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/esˈkɛ.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/isˈkɛ.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/esˈkɛ.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/iʃˈkɛ.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/eʃˈkɛ.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/esˈkɛ.te/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/iʃ.ˈkɛ.ti/",
"tags": [
"Northeast-Brazil"
]
},
{
"homophone": "sketch (Brazil)"
},
{
"homophone": "esquete (Brazil)"
}
],
"word": "scat"
}
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