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"text": "\"He's a furry fan and he's okay,\nHe MUCKs all night and he yiffs all day.\"\n— http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/msg/b65f4574e4ccb21a"
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"text": "\"Well, according to his sig, he waits until it moves before he yiffs it.\" — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.lifestyle.furry/msg/d5aa241a99efc929"
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"ref": "1997 October 17, StarChaser, “What to genocide”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <3448af39.75668367@169.132.11.13>",
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"ref": "1997 September 22, Locandez, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <na.dab87347cd.a40040lyndale@argonet.co.uk>",
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"ref": "1997 September 23, MegaDog the Nettweiler, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <1d3DsMAQZ$J0Ew2R@canismajor.demon.co.uk>",
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"ref": "2012, Joanne Reay, Romeo Spikes",
"text": "I mean, the urge to yiff is a pretty weird thing to admit to. Not something you can just drop into conversation. But look at them, hundreds of them, all gathered together in a Vegas hotel, exchanging information and experiences, the knowledge of their rare urges ever growing.",
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"ref": "2017, Joe Strike, Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture",
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"english": "If there was lack, you would cry and complain,\nRemember that, and do not me disdain.",
"ref": "c. 1438, John Lydgate, edited by Henry Bergen, Fall of Princes, page 384, line 2020",
"roman": "Remembre theron, and at me nat disdeyne",
"text": "Yiff ther was lak, thou woldest crie & pleyne.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "And if that trust with princes will not tarry,\nLittle marvel though the people vary […]",
"ref": "c. 1438, John Lydgate, edited by Henry Bergen, Fall of Princes, page 339, line 384",
"text": "And yiff that trust with pryncis wil nat tarie,\nLitil merueile thouh the peeple varie[…]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "So young and lusty with her eyes glad,\nthat if that god that heaven and earth made,\nwould have a love for beauty and goodness,\nand womanhood and truth and seemliness",
"ref": "1385-1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend of Good Women, page 154, line 1039",
"roman": "And womanhede and trouthe and semelynesse",
"text": "So yonge so lusty with hire eyen glade\nThat yiff that god that hevene and erthe made\nWolde haue a love For beaute and goodnesse",
"type": "quotation"
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"word": "Ȝiff"
}
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}
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"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English terms derived from Old English",
"Middle English terms with quotations",
"Middle English verbs"
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"3": "giefan"
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"name": "der"
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"etymology_text": "From Old English giefan.",
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"english": "God willing, a monk you'll not be,\nAnother order to you give I shall,\nA knight you'll become of the highest degree,\nJust as your brethren are named rightly royal.",
"ref": "1393, Jean d’Arras, Roman de Melusine, page 154, line 2571",
"roman": "As your brethren ben named ryght roiall.",
"text": "So god be pleased, monke shall ye noght be,\nAnother ordre to you yiff I shall,\nA knyght will you mak of full hye degre",
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