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"To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance."
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"(transitive) To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance."
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"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance",
"word": "pirskottaa"
},
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"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance",
"word": "pirskotella"
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"ref": "1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15",
"text": "The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.",
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"To soil by spattering."
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"(transitive) To soil by spattering."
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"_dis1": "4 95 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to soil by spattering",
"word": "roiskia"
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"To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend."
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"(transitive, figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend."
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"_dis1": "5 3 92",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to asperse with calumny",
"word": "panetella"
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"_dis1": "5 3 92",
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"sense": "to asperse with calumny",
"word": "herjata"
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"To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance."
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"(transitive) To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance."
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"(transitive) To soil by spattering."
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"To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend."
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"(transitive, figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend."
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"sense": "to sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance",
"word": "pirskottaa"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance",
"word": "pirskotella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to soil by spattering",
"word": "roiskia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to soil by spattering",
"word": "roiskuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to asperse with calumny",
"word": "panetella"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to asperse with calumny",
"word": "herjata"
}
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