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"sense": "dowdy, shabby (in one's appearance)",
"word": "nuhjuinen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dowdy, shabby (in one's appearance)",
"word": "schäbig"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "dowdy, shabby (in one's appearance)",
"word": "desleixado"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neelegántnyj",
"sense": "dowdy, shabby (in one's appearance)",
"word": "неэлега́нтный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nerjášlivyj",
"sense": "dowdy, shabby (in one's appearance)",
"word": "неря́шливый"
}
],
"word": "tacky"
}
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"Terms with French translations",
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"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
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"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Sense “in poor taste” from 1888, from earlier sense meaning shabby or seedy. Also see tackey (“neglected horse”), Southern US colloquialism from 1800s, later extended to people.",
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{
"form": "tackies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"word": "tackey"
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"Alternative form of tackey"
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"ipa": "/ˈtæki/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æki"
}
],
"word": "tacky"
}
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