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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "squab chick"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "squab pie"
}
],
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"3": "-"
},
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"name": "uder"
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"args": {
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"2": "skvabb",
"gloss": "fatty, flabby"
},
"expansion": "skvabb (“fatty, flabby”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unknown, unattested before 17th c.. Possibly descended from Swedish dialect skvabb (“fatty, flabby”).",
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{
"form": "squabs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"_dis": "2 10 4 7 15 2 12 6 10 16 0 2 8 6",
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"Fundamental",
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}
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"A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken."
],
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"baby",
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[
"pigeon",
"pigeon"
],
[
"dove",
"dove"
],
[
"chicken",
"chicken"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken."
],
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"_dis1": "81 7 11 0 0",
"sense": "baby pigeon",
"word": "piper"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 7 11 0 0",
"sense": "baby pigeon",
"word": "squeaker"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 7 11 0 0",
"sense": "baby pigeon",
"word": "pigeon chick"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 7 11 0 0",
"sense": "baby pigeon",
"word": "young pigeon"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 7 11 0 0",
"sense": "baby pigeon",
"word": "baby dove"
}
],
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"attributive",
"sometimes"
],
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{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "zuḡlūl",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "زُغْلُول"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "jawzal",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "جَوْزَل"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "dox",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "դոխ"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "aġavnyak",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "աղավնյակ"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "aġavnu jag",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "աղավնու ձագ"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "bg",
"english": "neopereno pile",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "неоперено пиле"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colomí"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "乳鴿"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "jyu⁵ gaap³",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "乳鸽"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "乳鴿"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "rǔgē",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "乳鸽"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "holoubě"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "kolombido"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "kyyhkysenpoikanen"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pigeonneau"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colombeau"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "colombelle"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "xundi",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "ხუნდი"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Jungtaube"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ungefiederte Jungtaube"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Taubenküken"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Taubenbaby"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pitsoúni",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πιτσούνι"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "peristerideús",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "περιστεριδεύς"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "galambfióka"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "varjúfióka"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gołębię"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"animate",
"masculine"
],
"word": "gołąbek"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "borracho"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "golubók",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "голубо́к"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "golubjónok",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "голубёнок"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "golúbka",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "голу́бка"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "golubić"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "golupče"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "holúbä"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pichón"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palomino"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "duvunge"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "holubʺja",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "голуб'я"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "holubenja",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "голубеня"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 7 10 4 10",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
"word": "pijunül"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"word": "鴿肉"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gēròu",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"word": "鸽肉"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"word": "kolombidaĵo"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"word": "kolombidoviando"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"word": "kyyhkysenliha"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pigeonneau"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Täubchen"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Täubchenfleisch"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pitsoúni",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πιτσούνι"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "borracho"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "golubjátina",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "голубя́тина"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"word": "thịt bồ câu"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 17 4 4 11",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"word": "pijunülamit"
}
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022, Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Corsair, page 207",
"text": "Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The meat of such a baby bird used as food."
],
"id": "en-squab-en-noun-TGzzmBio",
"links": [
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]
]
},
{
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"_dis": "6 0 15 15 11 6 15 2 18 0 0 6 0 4",
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"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
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}
],
"glosses": [
"A baby rook."
],
"id": "en-squab-en-noun-tT56AWAS",
"links": [
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"rook"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "7 2 87 2 2",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "rook chick"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 2 87 2 2",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "young rook"
}
],
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"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "mustavariksen poikanen"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "bébé corneille"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "bébé freux"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "petit de la corneille"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "petit du freux"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "neossós trypanokóraka",
"sense": "baby rook",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "νεοσσός τρυπανοκόρακα"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "neognó trypanokóraka",
"sense": "baby rook",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "νεογνό τρυπανοκόρακα"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "varjúfióka"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "baby rook",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gawronię"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "goluždravac"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 90 2 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "baby rook",
"word": "råkunge"
}
]
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"_dis": "2 10 4 7 15 2 12 6 10 16 0 2 8 6",
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Baby animals",
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"parents": [
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},
{
"_dis": "2 12 3 4 14 2 15 4 3 20 0 2 11 7",
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
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},
{
"_dis": "4 3 4 11 16 1 9 0 2 34 0 1 9 6",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Furniture",
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"Society",
"All topics",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "a. 1744, Alexander Pope (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, page 86,\nOn her large ſquab you find her ſpread, / Like a fat corpſe upon a bed, / That lies and ſtinks in ſtate."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa."
],
"id": "en-squab-en-noun-B3-T15MP",
"links": [
[
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],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 1 5 85 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tvǎrda vǎzglavnica",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"word": "твърда възглавница"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 5 85 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"word": "墊子"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 5 85 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "diànzi",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"word": "垫子"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 5 85 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"word": "istuintyyny"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 5 85 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "maxilára",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μαξιλάρα"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 5 85 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"word": "díványpárna"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 5 85 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coxim"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 5 85 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podúška",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "поду́шка"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 5 85 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"word": "soffkudde"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "a. 1800, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error”, in Poems of William Cowper, Esq, published 1824, page 28",
"text": "Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person of a short, fat figure."
],
"id": "en-squab-en-noun-XqoErazW"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈskwɒb/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈskwɑb/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
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"sense": "baby pigeon or dove",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
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"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
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"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
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"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
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"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "meat of a young pigeon or dove",
"word": "thịt bồ câu"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "baby rook",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "thick cushion",
"word": "墊子"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "diànzi",
"sense": "thick cushion",
"word": "垫子"
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "hu",
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