See squib on Wiktionary
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"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
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"en:Explosives"
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"etymology_text": "Possibly imitative of a small explosion.",
"forms": [
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"form": "squibs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "squibbing",
"tags": [
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"present"
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{
"form": "squibbed",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "A Snider squibbed in the jungle."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a sound like a small explosion."
],
"links": [
[
"explosion",
"explosion"
]
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"English dated terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "to squib a little debate"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute."
],
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
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[
"sarcastic",
"sarcastic"
],
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"severe",
"severe"
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[
"petty",
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[
"dispute",
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"(colloquial, dated, transitive, intransitive) To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute."
],
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"colloquial",
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"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
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{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007 September 11, Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Representatives:",
"text": "He squibbed the opportunity to push the claim that Kyoto should remain the flagship for international action - because deep down those on the other side know that the world has moved on beyond Kyoto.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To dodge something difficult, to bottle."
],
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"bottle",
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"(Australia) To dodge something difficult, to bottle."
],
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}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/skwɪb/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-squib.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dc/En-au-squib.ogg/En-au-squib.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/En-au-squib.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪb"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gǎrmja",
"sense": "make a sound such as a small explosion",
"word": "гърмя"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "make a sound such as a small explosion",
"word": "ploffen"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make sarcastic remarks",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zesměšňovat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make sarcastic remarks",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "parodovat"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Bullet hit squib",
"Squib (explosive)"
],
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}
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