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"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
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"en:Teeth"
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"word": "toothless whale"
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"text": "a toothless old man",
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"ref": "1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “\"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?\" -- A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:",
"text": "She goes on to explain the difficulty she's having getting visas for Lawrence and for Robert, the 14-year-old who is her older brother and is, amazingly, the last child of the toothless tiny woman who buzzes around us. (I find out later that she is only in her mid-fifties.)",
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"Having no teeth."
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"teeth",
"tooth"
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"text": "The treaty was toothless because of the lack of participation from the undersigned.",
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"ref": "1603, Ben Jonson, The Entertainment at Althorp:",
"text": "Not tell? ha! ha! I could smile / At this old and toothless wile.",
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"ref": "2021 October 10, Caroline Anders, “A TikTok bone salesman’s wall of spines reignites ethical debate over selling human remains”, in The Washington Post:",
"text": "Bans of the sale of human remains across platforms like Facebook, Etsy, Instagram and eBay are toothless and poorly enforced, Huffer said. And when a page does get shut down, he said, it just pops up on a different website.",
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"(figuratively) Weak; having no ability to enforce something."
],
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
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"ipa": "/ˈtuθlɪs/",
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"General-American"
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{
"word": "edentate"
},
{
"word": "edentulous"
},
{
"word": "teethless"
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{
"code": "bcl",
"lang": "Bikol Central",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "tipo"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezzǎb",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "беззъб"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "bezzubý"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "tandløs"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "tandloos"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "hampaaton"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "édenté"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "desdentado"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "fanado"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "zahnlos"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ádontos",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "άδοντος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fafoútis",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "φαφούτης"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "ξεδοντιάρης"
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{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "nōdós",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "νωδός"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "fogatlan"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "tannlaus"
},
{
"code": "iu",
"lang": "Inuktitut",
"roman": "kicotiqangittoq",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "ᑭᒍᑎᖃᖏᑦᑐᖅ"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "carballach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "mantach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "sdentato"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "tıssız",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "тіссіз"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "ēdentulus"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "bezzobains"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "bedantis"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bezzab",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "беззаб"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bezzaben",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "беззабен"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "niho more"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "niho ngore"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "tannløs"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "tannlaus"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "tannlaus"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "bīdandān",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "بیدندان"
},
{
"code": "pon",
"lang": "Pohnpeian",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "aupwahpw"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "bezzębny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "bezzęby"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "banguelo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "desdentado"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "știrb"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "edentat"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezzúbyj",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "беззу́бый"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "tuithless"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "desdentado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "edéntulo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "tandlös"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "ngubngob"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "dişsiz"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bezzúbyj",
"sense": "Having no teeth",
"word": "беззу́бий"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "bezzubý"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "hampaaton"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uḳbilo",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "უკბილო"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "xedontiáris",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "ξεδοντιάρης"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "inefficace"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "impotente"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "tannløs"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "tannlaus"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "tannlaus"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezzúbyj",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "беззу́бый"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "tandlös"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bezzúbyj",
"sense": "Being weak",
"word": "беззу́бий"
}
],
"word": "toothless"
}
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