"sootball" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "soot + ball",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "sootballs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "sootball (plural sootballs)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1870, The Tract magazine; or, Christian miscellany",
          "text": "If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, The Studio - Volumes 167-168, page 39",
          "text": "The painting is still conceived around a thick and sandy cloud that bursts like a fireball or sootball.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, I︠A︡.-M. K. Punning, The Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on the Development of Landscapes, page 21",
          "text": "In Lake Linajarv sediments also charcoal particles and sootballs were counted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jerry Spinelli, The Library Card, page 87",
          "text": "Lashed to the chassis with wire, the tailpipe coughed gray sootballs that laid a low, semisweet cloud for half a mile behind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jessica Stirling, The Dark Pasture: Book Three",
          "text": "Moving nearer to the French-tiled grate, Edith saw that the fire had burned quite low, and that a fragment of soot, round as a ball, adhered to the lip of the grate. She recalled the old superstition that a sootball forecast a visitor.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "A ball of soot or ash."
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          "soot",
          "soot"
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          "ash",
          "ash"
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        {
          "word": "soot-ball"
        },
        {
          "word": "soot ball"
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  "word": "sootball"
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  "etymology_text": "soot + ball",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sootballs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "expansion": "sootball (plural sootballs)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1870, The Tract magazine; or, Christian miscellany",
          "text": "If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1964, The Studio - Volumes 167-168, page 39",
          "text": "The painting is still conceived around a thick and sandy cloud that bursts like a fireball or sootball.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, I︠A︡.-M. K. Punning, The Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on the Development of Landscapes, page 21",
          "text": "In Lake Linajarv sediments also charcoal particles and sootballs were counted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jerry Spinelli, The Library Card, page 87",
          "text": "Lashed to the chassis with wire, the tailpipe coughed gray sootballs that laid a low, semisweet cloud for half a mile behind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jessica Stirling, The Dark Pasture: Book Three",
          "text": "Moving nearer to the French-tiled grate, Edith saw that the fire had burned quite low, and that a fragment of soot, round as a ball, adhered to the lip of the grate. She recalled the old superstition that a sootball forecast a visitor.",
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        "A ball of soot or ash."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "soot-ball"
    },
    {
      "word": "soot ball"
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  "word": "sootball"
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