See woo on Wiktionary
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "pitch woo"
},
{
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"2": "enm",
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"t": "to woo, court, marry"
},
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wanhō",
"t": "a bend, angle"
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"2": "vá",
"t": "corner, angle"
},
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"name": "cog"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English wowen, woȝen, from Old English wōgian (“to woo, court, marry”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots wow (“to woo”). Perhaps related to Old English wōg, wōh (“bending, crookedness”), in the specific sense of \"bend or incline (some)one toward oneself\". If so, then derived from Proto-Germanic *wanhō (“a bend, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wonk- (“crooked, bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *wā- (“to bend, twist, turn”); related to Old Norse vá (“corner, angle”).",
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{
"form": "woos",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wooing",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wooed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "wooed",
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]
}
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"1": ""
},
"expansion": "woo (third-person singular simple present woos, present participle wooing, simple past and past participle wooed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "allure"
}
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "flirt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "serenade"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "suitor"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "set one's cap at"
}
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "courtship"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "date"
}
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{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To endeavor to gain someone's affection/support."
],
"id": "en-woo-en-verb-9NV2gbR4",
"links": [
[
"endeavor",
"endeavor"
],
[
"affection",
"affection"
],
[
"support",
"support"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's affection/support."
],
"tags": [
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],
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"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tawaddada",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "تَوَدَّدَ"
},
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"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uhažvam",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "ухажвам"
},
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"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "festejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhuīqiú",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "追求"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "求愛"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiú'ài",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "求爱"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "dvořit se"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "kurtisere"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "het hof maken"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "amindumi"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "kosiskella"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "riiata"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "vokotella"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "courtiser"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "faire la cour (à)"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "facer as beiras"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "moxibvla",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "მოხიბვლა"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "umwerben"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "für sich zu gewinnen versuchen",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kortáro",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "κορτάρω"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "mnēsteúō",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "μνηστεύω"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "חיזר"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "khizér",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "חִזֵּר"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "udvarol"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "kurtezar"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "corteggiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"alt": "きゅうあいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyūai surú",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "求愛する"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "aruaru"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "whakaipo"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "whaipo"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "whakawhaipo"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "mātoro"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "yeşillenmek",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "یشیللنمك"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zalecać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "umizgiwać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "cortejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "curta"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "face curte"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uxáživatʹ",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уха́живать"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svátatʹsja",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сва́таться"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dobivátʹsja raspoložénija",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "добива́ться расположе́ния"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "snubiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "cortejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"tags": [
"Chile",
"informal"
],
"word": "pololear"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"tags": [
"Chile",
"slang"
],
"word": "jotear"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "doñear"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "uppvakta"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "kurtisera"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "svärma"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "kur yapmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "yazmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "asılmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 2 3",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "oviren",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "אָווירען"
}
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{
"ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XIX, Chapter viii, leaf 393v:",
"text": "Soo leue we syr Launcelot lyenge within that caue in grete payne / and euery day ther came a lady & brouȝt hym his mete & his drynke / & wowed hym to haue layne by hym / and euer the noble knyghte syre Launcelot sayd her nay.\n\"So leave we Sir Launcelot lying within that cave in great pain; and every day there came a lady and brought him his meat and his drink, and wooed him, to have lain by him; and ever the noble knight, Sir Launcelot, said her nay.\"",
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{
"ref": "1594, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 17], lines [97–100]:",
"text": "I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1718, Matthew Prior, epistle to Charles Montagu.:",
"text": "Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with"
],
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]
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"(transitive, often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a man"
],
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"often",
"transitive"
],
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with",
"word": "den Hof machen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 93 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with",
"word": "umwerben"
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"ref": "a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 39:",
"text": "Thee Chauntreſs oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Summer Wind:",
"text": "I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:",
"text": "It will be a tragedy if further enterprises of this kind—for example, the one proposed between South Wales, Bristol and the South Coast via Salisbury—are now deferred until they, too, are realised too late to make an impact on a public that is too firmly wedded to the roads to be wooed back to the trains.",
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"glosses": [
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"word": "pitch woo"
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"word": "wooer"
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"word": "flirt"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
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"ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XIX, Chapter viii, leaf 393v:",
"text": "Soo leue we syr Launcelot lyenge within that caue in grete payne / and euery day ther came a lady & brouȝt hym his mete & his drynke / & wowed hym to haue layne by hym / and euer the noble knyghte syre Launcelot sayd her nay.\n\"So leave we Sir Launcelot lying within that cave in great pain; and every day there came a lady and brought him his meat and his drink, and wooed him, to have lain by him; and ever the noble knight, Sir Launcelot, said her nay.\"",
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"text": "I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]",
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"ref": "1718, Matthew Prior, epistle to Charles Montagu.:",
"text": "Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.",
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"ref": "a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 39:",
"text": "Thee Chauntreſs oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song;",
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"ref": "a. 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Summer Wind:",
"text": "I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.",
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"ref": "1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:",
"text": "It will be a tragedy if further enterprises of this kind—for example, the one proposed between South Wales, Bristol and the South Coast via Salisbury—are now deferred until they, too, are realised too late to make an impact on a public that is too firmly wedded to the roads to be wooed back to the trains.",
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"word": "تَوَدَّدَ"
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"word": "festejar"
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "gl",
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"word": "facer as beiras"
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"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
"word": "მოხიბვლა"
},
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"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
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},
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"code": "de",
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"note": "für sich zu gewinnen versuchen",
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"code": "he",
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"word": "חיזר"
},
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"code": "he",
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"word": "חִזֵּר"
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "io",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "ota",
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
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],
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"code": "es",
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"word": "cortejar"
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{
"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support",
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"code": "tr",
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"code": "tr",
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"word": "אָווירען"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "den Hof machen"
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"code": "de",
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