"thinking-cap" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: thinking-caps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} thinking-cap (plural thinking-caps)
  1. Alternative form of thinking cap Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: thinking cap
    Sense id: en-thinking-cap-en-noun-5zpNWKYq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "As time passed the Great Spirit grew fonder and fonder of his good-natured friend, and was grieved to see him suffer for the lack of a full dinner pot and stomach, so the Great Spirit put on his thinking-cap and learned a way to help Mr. Turtle. \"The old fellow needs a wife!\" said the Great Spirit taking off his thinking-cap.",
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