"tuffoon" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "tuffoons",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "typhoon"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1754, Cope (Captain.), A New History of the East-Indies: With Brief Observations on the Religion, Customs, Manners and Trade of the Inhabitants. ... With a Map of the Country, and Several Other Copper-plates, ... By Captain Cope, page 135",
          "text": "In September the Rain and Wind are moderate generally, and yet in that Month and October, happen the Tuffoons (Typhones) which are such violent Storms, that no Ships venture out of the Harbour, during that Time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1759, An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, page 530",
          "text": "But without entering upon this equally dry and useless disquisition, sufficient it is that those Tuffoons, Typhons, or violent gusts of winds and storms, happen near the full or change of the moon, preceded usually by fair weather[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, A History of Asia and Oceanica, page 181",
          "text": "The Gulf of Tonquin and the adjacent seas are noted for dreadful whirlwinds, called tuffoons or typhoons. After calm weather, they are announced by a small black cloud in the north-east, with a copper-colored margin, which[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, William Dampier, Dampier's Voyages: Consisting of a New Voyage Round the World, a Supplement to the Voyage Round the World. Two Voyages to Campeachy, a Discourse of Winds, a Voyage to New Hollard, and a Vindication, in Answer to the Chimerical Relation of William Funnell, page 586",
          "text": "Tuffoons are a particular kind of violent Storms, blowing on the coast of Tonquin, and the neighbouring Coasts in the Months of July, August, and September. They commonly happen near the Full or Change of the Moon, and are usually[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of typhoon."
      ],
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  "word": "tuffoon"
}

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    {
      "form": "tuffoons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English nouns",
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        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "1754, Cope (Captain.), A New History of the East-Indies: With Brief Observations on the Religion, Customs, Manners and Trade of the Inhabitants. ... With a Map of the Country, and Several Other Copper-plates, ... By Captain Cope, page 135",
          "text": "In September the Rain and Wind are moderate generally, and yet in that Month and October, happen the Tuffoons (Typhones) which are such violent Storms, that no Ships venture out of the Harbour, during that Time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1759, An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, page 530",
          "text": "But without entering upon this equally dry and useless disquisition, sufficient it is that those Tuffoons, Typhons, or violent gusts of winds and storms, happen near the full or change of the moon, preceded usually by fair weather[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, A History of Asia and Oceanica, page 181",
          "text": "The Gulf of Tonquin and the adjacent seas are noted for dreadful whirlwinds, called tuffoons or typhoons. After calm weather, they are announced by a small black cloud in the north-east, with a copper-colored margin, which[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, William Dampier, Dampier's Voyages: Consisting of a New Voyage Round the World, a Supplement to the Voyage Round the World. Two Voyages to Campeachy, a Discourse of Winds, a Voyage to New Hollard, and a Vindication, in Answer to the Chimerical Relation of William Funnell, page 586",
          "text": "Tuffoons are a particular kind of violent Storms, blowing on the coast of Tonquin, and the neighbouring Coasts in the Months of July, August, and September. They commonly happen near the Full or Change of the Moon, and are usually[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of typhoon."
      ],
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}