See spiflicate on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Apparently made up to resemble a word of Latin origin.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spiflicates",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spiflicating",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "spiflicated",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spiflicated",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spiflicating"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spiflication"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To confound, silence or dumbfound."
],
"id": "en-spiflicate-en-verb-G7jquxnO",
"links": [
[
"confound",
"confound#English"
],
[
"silence",
"silence#English"
],
[
"dumbfound",
"dumbfound#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To confound, silence or dumbfound."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 53 9 24",
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"Entry maintenance"
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{
"_dis": "13 63 10 15",
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},
{
"_dis": "9 73 7 11",
"kind": "other",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"To beat severely."
],
"id": "en-spiflicate-en-verb-cZZeoZOO",
"links": [
[
"beat",
"beat"
]
],
"qualifier": "Provincial",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, Provincial, obsolete) To beat severely."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1837, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends:",
"text": "So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I spiflicate Johnny",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stifle, suffocate, kill."
],
"id": "en-spiflicate-en-verb-VGqRg8xI",
"links": [
[
"stifle",
"stifle#English"
],
[
"suffocate",
"suffocate#English"
],
[
"kill",
"kill#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang, obsolete) To stifle, suffocate, kill."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase:",
"text": "It completely busts up and spifflicates the medical evidence",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To ruin, destroy."
],
"id": "en-spiflicate-en-verb-eGiOgosv",
"links": [
[
"ruin",
"ruin#English"
],
[
"destroy",
"destroy#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To ruin, destroy."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
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"word": "smifligate"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"tags": [
"Cornish",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "spefflicate"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spifflicate"
}
],
"word": "spiflicate"
}
{
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
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"etymology_text": "Apparently made up to resemble a word of Latin origin.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spiflicates",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spiflicating",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "spiflicated",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
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{
"form": "spiflicated",
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}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "spiflicating"
},
{
"word": "spiflication"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To confound, silence or dumbfound."
],
"links": [
[
"confound",
"confound#English"
],
[
"silence",
"silence#English"
],
[
"dumbfound",
"dumbfound#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To confound, silence or dumbfound."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To beat severely."
],
"links": [
[
"beat",
"beat"
]
],
"qualifier": "Provincial",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, Provincial, obsolete) To beat severely."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1837, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends:",
"text": "So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I spiflicate Johnny",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stifle, suffocate, kill."
],
"links": [
[
"stifle",
"stifle#English"
],
[
"suffocate",
"suffocate#English"
],
[
"kill",
"kill#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang, obsolete) To stifle, suffocate, kill."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang",
"transitive"
]
},
{
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"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase:",
"text": "It completely busts up and spifflicates the medical evidence",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To ruin, destroy."
],
"links": [
[
"ruin",
"ruin#English"
],
[
"destroy",
"destroy#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To ruin, destroy."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "smifligate"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cornish",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "spefflicate"
},
{
"word": "spifflicate"
}
],
"word": "spiflicate"
}
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