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"English euphemisms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English links with manual fragments",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Please avoid blowing off while we're in church.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of fart."
],
"links": [
[
"fart",
"fart#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, euphemistic, UK, Australia) Synonym of fart."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "flatulate"
},
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "fart"
}
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"UK",
"euphemistic",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).",
"To abandon (someone) as the last stage of a scam."
],
"links": [
[
"shirk",
"shirk"
],
[
"disregard",
"disregard"
],
[
"scam",
"scam"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).",
"(transitive) To abandon (someone) as the last stage of a scam."
],
"senseid": [
"en:shirk or disregard"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dick around"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).",
"To reject or shut down someone's sexual advances or other offers (e.g. a job offer)."
],
"links": [
[
"shirk",
"shirk"
],
[
"disregard",
"disregard"
],
[
"shut down",
"shut down"
]
],
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"(idiomatic) To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).",
"(transitive) To reject or shut down someone's sexual advances or other offers (e.g. a job offer)."
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"English terms with usage examples"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "I decided to blow off the meeting and leave early.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "We've both been blowing off Peter all day: he's really boring.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To shirk or disregard (a duty or person)."
],
"links": [
[
"shirk",
"shirk"
],
[
"disregard",
"disregard"
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"(idiomatic) To shirk or disregard (a duty or person)."
],
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"en:shirk or disregard"
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{
"word": "dick around"
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"idiomatic"
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"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Her leg was blown off by a landmine.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To forcibly disconnect something by use of a firearm or explosive device."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To forcibly disconnect something by use of a firearm or explosive device."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The storm blew the ship off course.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1950 August, “The Rimutaka Incline and Deviation, New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 547:",
"text": "This occurred on September 11, 1880, when a mixed train was blown off the track during a severe gale, and three passengers were killed.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To force to leave a course."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To perform oral sex on (someone); to give a blowjob to or suck off (someone)."
],
"links": [
[
"oral sex",
"oral sex"
],
[
"blowjob",
"blowjob"
],
[
"suck off",
"suck off"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang) To perform oral sex on (someone); to give a blowjob to or suck off (someone)."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'll blow you off to dinner.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To buy food or drink for (someone); to treat (someone)."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, slang, dated) To buy food or drink for (someone); to treat (someone)."
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He blew off his inheritance on partying.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use up or spend (something)."
],
"links": [
[
"use up",
"use up"
],
[
"spend",
"spend"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang) To use up or spend (something)."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pass gas",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "lâcher une caisse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pass gas",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "péter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pass gas",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "avoir des gaz"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pass gas",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "vesser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pass gas",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "loufer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "Gas",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pass gas",
"word": "ablassen"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fukitobu",
"sense": "pass gas",
"word": "吹き飛ぶ"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispustítʹ gazy",
"sense": "pass gas",
"word": "испусти́ть газы"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "pass gas",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "прднути"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "pass gas",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "пустити ветар"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "pass gas",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "prdnuti"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "pass gas",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "pustiti vetar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pass gas",
"word": "desatender"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zabitʹ",
"sense": "to shirk or disregard",
"word": "забить"
}
],
"word": "blow off"
}
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