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"expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål bratt",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "brant"
},
"expansion": "Swedish brant",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English brant, from Old English brant (“high, steep”), from Proto-West Germanic *brant, from Proto-Germanic *brantaz (“steep, towering”). Cognate with Scots brent, Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, Swedish brant).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more brant",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most brant",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "brant (comparative more brant, superlative most brant)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1551, Roger Ascham, letter to Mr. Edward Raven",
"text": "Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"steep, precipitous."
],
"links": [
[
"steep",
"steep"
],
[
"precipitous",
"precipitous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal) steep, precipitous."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Scottish English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1828, Robert Burns, John Anderson",
"text": "Your bonnie brow was brent.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"smooth; unwrinkled"
],
"links": [
[
"smooth",
"smooth"
],
[
"unwrinkled",
"unwrinkled"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled"
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/bɹænt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ænt"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "brent"
}
],
"word": "brant"
}
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