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"word": "sonho molhado"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "polljúcija",
"sense": "erotic dream",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "поллю́ция"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "erotic dream",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sueño húmedo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "erotic dream",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sueño mojado"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "erotic dream",
"word": "ıslak rüya"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huànxiǎng",
"sense": "greatly desired fantasy",
"word": "幻想"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yìyín",
"sense": "greatly desired fantasy",
"word": "意淫"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "greatly desired fantasy",
"word": "natte droom"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "greatly desired fantasy",
"word": "märkä uni"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "greatly desired fantasy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "feuchter Traum"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "oneíroxi",
"sense": "greatly desired fantasy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ονείρωξη"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sɛksuálʹnaja fantázija",
"sense": "greatly desired fantasy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сексуа́льная фанта́зия"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "erotíčeskij son",
"sense": "greatly desired fantasy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "эроти́ческий сон"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mókryj son",
"sense": "greatly desired fantasy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мо́крый сон"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Nocturnal emission"
],
"word": "wet dream"
}
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"form": "wet dreams",
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},
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},
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"form": "wet dreamed",
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]
},
{
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"past"
]
},
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"form": "wet dreamt",
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1978, Larry Kramer, Faggots, New York: Warner Books, published 1979, page 85",
"text": "[…] he’d been wet dreaming for several months about such an opportunity as was obviously creeping up on both of them,",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Nik Cohn, Need, New York: Knopf, page 137",
"text": "That was the only sex she had ever wet-dreamed about.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "2005, Tyehimba Jess, Leadbelly, Amherst, MA: Verse Press, p. 33,\nyou is more a man than they ever wet dreamed to be"
}
],
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"To produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal during sleep; to have an erotic dream; (figurative) to fantasize (about something, especially in a sexual way)."
],
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[
"produce",
"produce"
],
[
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[
"sex organ",
"sex organ"
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[
"erotic",
"erotic"
],
[
"dream",
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],
[
"fantasize",
"fantasize"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal during sleep; to have an erotic dream; (figurative) to fantasize (about something, especially in a sexual way)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1967, Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter, New York: Viking, Book 4, p. 136",
"text": "[…] the Bakst drawings imposed themselves on the shadowy sultans, sultanas, eunuchs, and pages […] the pageboy of the Fairy Cherry in panniered skirt and cherry-tree headdress―the very same he had dreamed, wet dreamed no doubt as well, pressed down, hemmed in by his wooden box.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Paul Burman, The Grease Monkey’s Tale, London: PaperBooks, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 71",
"text": "[…] she left so few traces of having ever existed at all that he began to wonder whether he hadn’t just wet-dreamt her into being.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 11, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 163",
"text": "A rebel is a gleaming individual in tight Levi’s, a sneering and pretty face. The kind Sal Mineo wet-dreams.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually."
],
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"(transitive) To have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually."
],
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"transitive"
]
}
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/En-au-wet_dream.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
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],
"wikipedia": [
"Nocturnal emission"
],
"word": "wet dream"
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