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"sense": "game",
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"word": "teléfono descompuesto"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "game",
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"word": "viskleken"
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"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "watıq telefon",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ватык телефон"
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"sense": "game",
"word": "kulaktan kulağa"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zipsóvanyj telefón",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зіпсо́ваний телефо́н"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "game",
"word": "tam sao thất bản"
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"ref": "2004, Helen Walters, 200% Cotton: New T-Shirt Graphics, page 141",
"text": "Rightly famed for their year 2000 project, RMX//A Visual Remix Project, for which they remixed each others' work in a Chinese Whispers-style process, they have also printed T-shirts with their eye-catching graphics […]",
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"code": "af",
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"sense": "game",
"word": "telefoontjie"
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"roman": "hātif ʕarabiyy",
"sense": "game",
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "game",
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"word": "هَاتِف لَاسِلْكِيّ"
},
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"roman": "pʻčʻacʻac heṙaxos",
"sense": "game",
"word": "փչացած հեռախոս"
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"roman": "razvalen telefon",
"sense": "game",
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"sense": "game",
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"word": "Stille Poß"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "game",
"word": "傳話遊戲"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chuánhuà yóuxì",
"sense": "game",
"word": "传话游戏"
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"sense": "game",
"tags": [
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"word": "telefon"
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"sense": "game",
"tags": [
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"word": "doorfluistertje"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "game",
"word": "rikkinäinen puhelin"
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"sense": "game",
"word": "juoruämmä"
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{
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "téléphone sans fil"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
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"word": "Stille Post"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Flüsterpost"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chalasméno tiléfono",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "χαλασμένο τηλέφωνο"
},
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"note": "טֶלֶפוֹן שָׁבוּר m (télefon shavúr, literally “broken telephone”)",
"sense": "game"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "game",
"word": "kínai suttogás"
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"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "telefono senza fili"
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{
"code": "it",
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"note": "伝言ゲーム (でんごんゲーム, dengon gēmu, literally “message game”)",
"sense": "game"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "omgyeo malhagi",
"sense": "game",
"word": "옮겨 말하기"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "rasipan telefon",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "nb",
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"word": "hviskelek"
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"sense": "game",
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"word": "telefone sem fio"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "slómannyj telefón",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
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"word": "сло́манный телефо́н"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "game",
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"masculine",
"plural"
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"word": "глухи телефони"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"masculine",
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"word": "глуви телефони"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "game",
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"masculine",
"plural"
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"word": "gluhi telefoni"
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"sense": "game",
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"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "telefón"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "teléfono descompuesto"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "teléfono estropeado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"Chile",
"masculine"
],
"word": "teléfono"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "viskleken"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "watıq telefon",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ватык телефон"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "game",
"word": "kulaktan kulağa"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zipsóvanyj telefón",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зіпсо́ваний телефо́н"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "game",
"word": "tam sao thất bản"
}
],
"word": "Chinese whispers"
}
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