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Branch, How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert, Shambhala Publications, page 44", "text": "I made it just far enough to become a “Webelo,” which is scouting's equivalent of a “tween,” a boy no longer a cub but not yet whatever is supposed to come next. A man? A bear? An eagle? A fake Indian? (Webelos are referred to as a[…]", "type": "quotation" } ], "form_of": [ { "word": "Webelo" } ], "glosses": [ "plural of Webelo" ], "id": "en-Webelos-en-noun-rrRYs6CF", "links": [ [ "Webelo", "Webelo#English" ] ], "tags": [ "form-of", "plural" ] } ], "word": "Webelos" }
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Through folk etymology, it is now commonly stated that the term derives from \"we'll be loyal Scouts,\" although this was not the term's original meaning.http://books.google.com/books?id=Nf0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=webelo+scout+%22wolf%22+bear+lion&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fXSNUN_-C9S80QHW6IGYAg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=webelo%20scout%20%22wolf%22%20bear%20lion&f=false", "forms": [ { "form": "Webelos", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "Webelos" }, "expansion": "Webelos (plural Webelos)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "American English" ], "glosses": [ "A young scout in the Boy Scouts of America who is working his way up to the Boy Scouts." ], "links": [ [ "scout", "scout" ], [ "Boy Scout", "Boy Scout" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US) A young scout in the Boy Scouts of America who is working his way up to the Boy Scouts." ], "tags": [ "US" ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "Webelos" ], "word": "Webelos" } { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English entries with topic categories using raw markup", "English indeclinable nouns", "English lemmas", "English non-lemma forms", "English noun forms", "English nouns", "English nouns with irregular plurals", "en:Scouting" ], "etymology_text": "An invented term that originated in the Boy Scouts of America c. 1954. 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Branch, How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert, Shambhala Publications, page 44", "text": "I made it just far enough to become a “Webelo,” which is scouting's equivalent of a “tween,” a boy no longer a cub but not yet whatever is supposed to come next. A man? A bear? An eagle? A fake Indian? (Webelos are referred to as a[…]", "type": "quotation" } ], "form_of": [ { "word": "Webelo" } ], "glosses": [ "plural of Webelo" ], "links": [ [ "Webelo", "Webelo#English" ] ], "tags": [ "form-of", "plural" ] } ], "word": "Webelos" }
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