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"ref": "1939, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise",
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"ref": "1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9",
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"To write illegibly."
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"_dis1": "0 0 100",
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"roman": "piša nerazbrano",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
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"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
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"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
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"roman": "carápatʹ",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"word": "цара́пать"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "harakanvarvas"
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"code": "hu",
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{
"ref": "1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9",
"text": "When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer \"the homosexual\" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To wriggle or squirm."
],
"links": [
[
"wriggle",
"wriggle"
],
[
"squirm",
"squirm"
]
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To make a squiggle."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To write illegibly."
],
"links": [
[
"write",
"write"
]
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈskwɪɡl̩/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪɡəl"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-squiggle.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dc/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-squiggle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-squiggle.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dc/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-squiggle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-squiggle.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "piša nerazbrano",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"word": "пиша неразбрано"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"word": "raapustaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"word": "griffonner"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"word": "kritzeln"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "carápatʹ",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"word": "цара́пать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "škrjábatʹ",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"word": "шкря́бать"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "нашкрабати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "нажврљати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "naškrabati"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "nažvrljati"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"note": "шкря́бати (škrjábaty, literally “to scratch”)",
"sense": "to write (something) illegibly"
}
],
"word": "squiggle"
}
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