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{ "forms": [ { "form": "butters someone's biscuit", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "buttering someone's biscuit", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "buttered someone's biscuit", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "buttered someone's biscuit", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "butter someone's biscuit (third-person singular simple present butters someone's biscuit, present participle buttering someone's biscuit, simple past and past participle buttered someone's biscuit)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English slang", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "To interest or appeal to someone; to make someone happy." ], "links": [ [ "interest", "interest" ], [ "appeal", "appeal" ], [ "happy", "happy" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(slang) To interest or appeal to someone; to make someone happy." ], "tags": [ "slang" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "float someone's boat" } ], "word": "butter someone's biscuit" }
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