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"word": "哇"
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"sense": "loud exclamation intended to scare someone",
"word": "喲"
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"word": "哟"
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"sense": "loud exclamation intended to scare someone",
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"sense": "loud exclamation intended to scare someone",
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"sense": "loud exclamation intended to scare someone",
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"sense": "loud exclamation intended to scare someone",
"word": "ばあ"
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"word": "부"
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"sense": "loud exclamation intended to scare someone",
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"sense": "word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared",
"word": "pöö"
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"word": "buh"
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"word": "bau"
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"ref": "1852 July 15, “Dundalk Election”, in The Freeman's Journal, volume lxxxv, Dublin, page 3",
"text": "I ask them to record their votes in my favour, and I ask, is there any man who will dare to call me a stranger (hear, hear, and booing)?",
"type": "quotation"
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"An exclamation used by a member of an audience, as at a stage play or sports game, to indicate derision or disapproval of what has just occurred."
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"_dis1": "25 75",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "exclamation used by a member of an audience",
"word": "噓"
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"word": "嘘"
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"word": "boe"
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"sense": "exclamation used by a member of an audience",
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"word": "buh"
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"sense": "exclamation used by a member of an audience",
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"sense": "exclamation used by a member of an audience",
"word": "ἰεῦ"
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"word": "pfuj"
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"sense": "exclamation used by a member of an audience",
"word": "ú"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ua",
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"ref": "2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC",
"text": "...Hodgson headed down the tunnel with the boos of fans ringing in his ears after an eighth league defeat of the season...",
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"word": "esbroncada"
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"code": "yue",
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"word": "㗾"
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"word": "pfujolás"
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"word": "kifütyülés"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"code": "pt",
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"word": "apupo"
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"word": "ши́канье"
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
"word": "喝倒彩"
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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},
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
"word": "野次る"
},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
"word": "ブーイングする"
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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"word": "ши́кать"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "abuchear"
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"sense": "to shout boos derisively (intransitive)",
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"code": "yue",
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"sense": "to shout boos at (transitive)",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to shout boos at (transitive)",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to shout boos at (transitive)",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "to shout boos at (transitive)",
"word": "púa út"
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"code": "nb",
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"ref": "1967, George E. Andrews, Simon Vinkenoog, The Book of Grass: An Anthology on Indian Hemp, page 213",
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"ref": "1984, Raphael S. Ezekiel, Voices from the corner: poverty and racism in the inner city, page 56",
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"ref": "2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus, page 2",
"text": "Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).",
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