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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Prism International, page 39",
"text": "Cheek back (verb): defensive strategy of a bism who has been reprimanded for errant behaviour.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Andrew Glascoe, Nobody Knew She Was There, page 25",
"text": "Just that you were a 'pair o' wee bisms.'",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2018, Ngaio Marsh, Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue, page 44",
"text": "That shut the old bism up good and proper.",
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"A devilish person."
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"(chiefly Scotland) A devilish person."
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