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"word": "로미오"
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"sense": "character in Romeo and Juliet",
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "character in Romeo and Juliet",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "character in Romeo and Juliet",
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],
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "character in Romeo and Juliet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "character in Romeo and Juliet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Роме́о"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "character in Romeo and Juliet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "character in Romeo and Juliet",
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],
"word": "Romeo"
},
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "character in Romeo and Juliet",
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"Romeo (disambiguation)"
],
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"word": "Romeo and Juliet couple"
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"word": "Juliet"
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{
"word": "ladykiller"
},
{
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},
{
"word": "Lothario"
},
{
"word": "Montague"
}
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"text": "Have you met her latest Romeo yet?",
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"ref": "1974, Black Belt, volume 12, number 4, page 11",
"text": "Indian Romeos […] have yielded to the temptation to pat, feel, pinch and brush against the more irresistible and accessible portions of women who come within discreet cop-a-feel distance.",
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},
{
"ref": "1979, Roger Hodgson (lyrics and music), “Take the Long Way Home”, in Breakfast in America, performed by Supertramp",
"text": "So you think you're a Romeo / You're playing a part in a picture-show / Well, take the long way home",
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}
],
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],
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"espionage"
],
[
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[
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[
"man",
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],
[
"women",
"woman"
]
],
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"(espionage) A spy specialised in seducing persons of interest, in particular a man targeting women."
],
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"espionage",
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms"
],
"glosses": [
"A womanizer."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
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[
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"raw_glosses": [
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"ipa": "/ˈɹoʊmioʊ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-ca-Romeo.oga",
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"Canada"
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"sense": "boyfriend",
"word": "beau"
},
{
"sense": "boyfriend",
"word": "boyfriend"
},
{
"sense": "boyfriend",
"word": "man friend"
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{
"sense": "man who is a great lover",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "lover boy"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "man who is a great lover",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "romeo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "man who is a great lover",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "casanova"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "man who is a great lover",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dongiovanni"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "man who is a great lover",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "romeo"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "man who is a great lover",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "casanova"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "man who is a great lover",
"word": "donżuan"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "man who is a great lover",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "żigolak"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Romeo (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "Romeo"
}
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