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"expansion": "ass + -le (frequentative suffix)",
"name": "suf"
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"2": "aarzelen",
"t": "to hesitate; waver"
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"etymology_text": "From ass + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch aarzelen (“to hesitate; waver”).",
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"ref": "1951, Constance Noyes Robertson, The Golden Circle",
"text": "\"May all her public servants arsle around like buss-eyed catawumpuses ! That's what I say. Just like they'll do tomorrow, while we set here and laugh at 'em.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1969, Kentucky Folklore Society, Kentucky folklore record",
"text": "You're always assling around.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Vance Randolph, G. Legman, Blow the Candle Out",
"text": "\"Them boys don't do no work, they just assle around town all day.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Nicoline Van Der Sijs, Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops",
"text": "He doesn't have anything to do so he's just assling around […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Julian D. Hayden, Bill Broyles, Diane E. Boyer, Field man: life as a desert archaeologist",
"text": "I assled over into a packrat nest without thinking, so the next scene on that damn camera recorder was me leaning over while the ladies in the party pulled cholla out of my tight Levis. I took that with great dignity and aplomb, I assure you.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To sit, move, or scoot about on one's ass; loaf; wander idly around; waste time."
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"(intransitive) To sit, move, or scoot about on one's ass; loaf; wander idly around; waste time."
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"word": "arsle"
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"ref": "1951, Constance Noyes Robertson, The Golden Circle",
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},
{
"ref": "1969, Kentucky Folklore Society, Kentucky folklore record",
"text": "You're always assling around.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1992, Vance Randolph, G. Legman, Blow the Candle Out",
"text": "\"Them boys don't do no work, they just assle around town all day.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Nicoline Van Der Sijs, Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops",
"text": "He doesn't have anything to do so he's just assling around […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Julian D. Hayden, Bill Broyles, Diane E. Boyer, Field man: life as a desert archaeologist",
"text": "I assled over into a packrat nest without thinking, so the next scene on that damn camera recorder was me leaning over while the ladies in the party pulled cholla out of my tight Levis. I took that with great dignity and aplomb, I assure you.",
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"(intransitive) To sit, move, or scoot about on one's ass; loaf; wander idly around; waste time."
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"rhymes": "-æsəl"
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"word": "arsle"
}
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"word": "assle"
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