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"ref": "1747, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, page iii",
"text": "A Frenchman, in his own Country, would dress a fine Dinner of twenty Dishes, and all genteel and pretty, for the Expence he will put an English Lord to for dressing one Dish. But then there is the little petty Profit. [...] So much is the blind Folly of this Age, that they would rather be impos'd on by a French Booby, than give Encouragement to a good English Cook!",
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"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbuːbi/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːbi"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-booby.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/29/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-booby.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-booby.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/29/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-booby.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-booby.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"booby"
],
"word": "booby"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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