See tetter on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1895, John G. Williams, \"De Ole Plantation.\"",
"text": "But mebbe you ax, is tetter wine(\"vine\") a bad ting? No, I say, tetter wine is a good ting. You cant hab tetter widout de tetter wine. Dat wha' tetter wine fur? To mek tetter. But dat tetter wine dat ent mek tetter, dats a bad tetter wine kase e barren tetter wine.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Potato, or sweet potato root."
],
"links": [
[
"Dixieland",
"Dixieland"
],
[
"Potato",
"potato"
],
[
"sweet potato",
"sweet potato"
]
],
"qualifier": "Regional Dixieland vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Regional Dixieland vernacular, obsolete) Potato, or sweet potato root."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "tetter"
}
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
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{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms",
"Norwegian Bokmål verb forms",
"Pages with 2 entries"
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{
"word": "tette"
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"present of tette"
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"tette",
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}
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