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{
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}
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"etymology_text": "An allusion to an egg that has gone bad or turned rotten.",
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"ref": "1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy",
"text": "\"Dat's right!\" piped up the newsboy who had brought the policeman. \"I see him do de trick jest a minit ago!\"\n\"This is a plot against me!\" fumed the swindler.\n\"Dat feller is a bad egg!\" went on the newsboy. \"His name is Bill Butts. He's a slick one, he is. Hits de country jays strong, he does!\"",
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},
{
"ref": "1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest",
"text": "My son had a drug problem and hired a bad egg as a chief accountant […]",
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},
{
"ref": "2017 May 26, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, May 26, 2017",
"text": "\"And the fifth immortal we know tried to kill you.\" \"He is a bad egg. We stick to good eggs.\"",
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}
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"Someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible; a rogue."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "rogue",
"word": "壞蛋"
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"roman": "huàidàn",
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"sense": "rogue",
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"word": "bandit"
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"feminine"
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"An egg that has gone bad; a rotten egg."
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"(literal) An egg that has gone bad; a rotten egg."
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"word": "bad apple"
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"ref": "1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy",
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"text": "My son had a drug problem and hired a bad egg as a chief accountant […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017 May 26, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, May 26, 2017",
"text": "\"And the fifth immortal we know tried to kill you.\" \"He is a bad egg. We stick to good eggs.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
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],
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"(literal) An egg that has gone bad; a rotten egg."
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"translations": [
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "rogue",
"word": "壞蛋"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàidàn",
"sense": "rogue",
"word": "坏蛋"
},
{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rogue",
"word": "mätämuna"
},
{
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"sense": "rogue",
"word": "délinquant"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rogue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "malfrat"
},
{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "rogue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bandit"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "rogue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carō pūtida"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "rogue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stricat"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "rogue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ticălos"
},
{
"code": "gd",
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"sense": "rogue",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "droch-isean"
}
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"word": "bad egg"
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