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{
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "chugalug"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "chug-wagon"
}
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},
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}
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"etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic, in imitation of a working steam engine. The racial slur sense derives from the stereotype of Native Americans chugging alcohol.",
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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"A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine."
],
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[
"dull",
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],
[
"percussive",
"percussive"
],
[
"labouring",
"labouring"
],
[
"engine",
"engine"
]
],
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "sound",
"word": "軋軋聲"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yàyà shēng",
"sense": "sound",
"word": "轧轧声"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zīzīgāgā",
"sense": "sound",
"word": "吱吱嘎嘎"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sound",
"word": "tuksutus"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sound",
"word": "puksutus"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sound",
"word": "prutkutus"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vrombissement"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rugissement"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sound",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Puffen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sound",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Tuckern"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sbuffo"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sound",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scoppiettio"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pyxténije",
"sense": "sound",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пыхте́ние"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He drank his beer in three chugs.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large gulp of drink."
],
"id": "en-chug-en-noun-Z~7-UYcM",
"links": [
[
"gulp",
"gulp"
]
],
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{
"_dis1": "2 91 3 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large gulp",
"word": "huikka"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 3 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large gulp",
"word": "kulaus"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 3 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large gulp",
"word": "siemaus"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 3 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large gulp",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kräftiger Zug"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 3 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "large gulp",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sorso"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 3 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "large gulp",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sorsata"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 3 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "large gulp",
"word": "dragar"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 3 4",
"alt": "большо́й",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glotók",
"sense": "large gulp",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "глото́к"
}
]
},
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}
],
"glosses": [
"A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival."
],
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"homemade",
"homemade"
],
[
"Cuban",
"Cuban"
],
[
"boat",
"boat"
]
]
},
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"Ethnic slurs",
"Offensive terms",
"Terms by usage"
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"source": "w+disamb"
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{
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"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Designer dogs",
"orig": "en:Designer dogs",
"parents": [
"Dogs",
"Canids",
"Carnivores",
"Mammals",
"Vertebrates",
"Chordates",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
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"A person of Native American descent."
],
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[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"ethnic",
"ethnic"
],
[
"slur",
"slur"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Native American descent."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"ethnic",
"slur"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/t͡ʃʌɡ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌɡ"
},
{
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/En-us-chug.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "chŭg"
}
],
"word": "chug"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "butt chug"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "chug away"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "plug and chug"
}
],
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"form": "chugs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "chugging",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "chugged",
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"participle",
"past"
]
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{
"form": "chugged",
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"past"
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}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To make dull explosive sounds."
],
"id": "en-chug-en-verb-1bKZvDAt",
"links": [
[
"dull",
"dull"
],
[
"explosive",
"explosive"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To make dull explosive sounds."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "93 5 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make dull explosive sounds",
"word": "tuksuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 5 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make dull explosive sounds",
"word": "puksuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 5 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make dull explosive sounds",
"word": "prutkuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 5 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make dull explosive sounds",
"word": "scoppiettare"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 5 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make dull explosive sounds",
"word": "crepitare"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 5 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pyxtétʹ",
"sense": "to make dull explosive sounds",
"word": "пыхте́ть"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "We were chugging along a back road when the engine cut out.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move or travel whilst making such sounds."
],
"id": "en-chug-en-verb-wCaFRSCX",
"links": [
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"travel",
"travel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To move or travel whilst making such sounds."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "15 69 12 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move whilst making such sounds",
"word": "tuksuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 69 12 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move whilst making such sounds",
"word": "puksuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 69 12 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move whilst making such sounds",
"word": "prutkuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 69 12 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "agkomachó",
"sense": "to move whilst making such sounds",
"word": "αγκομαχώ"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 130",
"text": "Before the year was out, the girls were out of school and the foursome's \"Tell Him\" was chuggin’ up the charts.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 24:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03",
"text": "As the escort carriers chug away south, their single 5-inch rear guns are now cleared to open fire as the range closes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian",
"text": "For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"To move or travel at a steady, although not especially fast, pace."
],
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"move",
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[
"travel",
"travel"
],
[
"steady",
"steady"
],
[
"fast",
"fast"
],
[
"pace",
"pace"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, by extension) To move or travel at a steady, although not especially fast, pace."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
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],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Chug! Chug! Chug!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I can't believe he chugged three beers.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. Usually chanted at the person who is drinking."
],
"id": "en-chug-en-verb-69Cfif6d",
"links": [
[
"drink",
"drink"
],
[
"beer",
"beer"
],
[
"breath",
"breathe"
],
[
"chugalug",
"chugalug"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, colloquial) To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. Usually chanted at the person who is drinking."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"transitive"
],
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "一口氣喝完"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yīkǒuqì hēwán",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "一口气喝完"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "乾（了）"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"alt": "gān [le]",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "干（了）"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"tags": [
"interjection",
"slang"
],
"word": "走一個"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zǒuyīgè",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "走一个"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "pulputtaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "horia"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "horaista"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "vetää ykkösellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "fi",
"english": "juoda (chanted in the imperative",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "\"juo!, juo!\")"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"tags": [
"Canada"
],
"word": "caler"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "boire cul sec"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "auf ex trinken"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "exen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "ingollare"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "tracannare"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "ingurgitare"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "trangugiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "virar"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jóbnutʹ",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"tags": [
"perfective",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "ёбнуть"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "djórnutʹ",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "дёрнуть"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "namaxnútʹ",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "намахну́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "engullir"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "dikmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "kafaya dikmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "dudlyty",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "дудлити"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "cmulyty",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "цмулити"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 96",
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to drink a large amount in a single action",
"word": "qot kerden"
}
]
}
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"ipa": "/t͡ʃʌɡ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌɡ"
},
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"tags": [
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},
{
"enpr": "chŭg"
}
],
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}
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"A dog that is a cross between a pug and a chihuahua."
],
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"audio": "en-us-chug.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6a/En-us-chug.ogg/En-us-chug.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/En-us-chug.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "chŭg"
}
],
"word": "chug"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English blends",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ʌɡ",
"Rhymes:English/ʌɡ/1 syllable",
"en:Designer dogs"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "charity",
"3": "mug"
},
"expansion": "Blend of charity + mug",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Blend of charity + mug",
"forms": [
{
"form": "chugs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "chugging",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "chugged",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "chugged",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "chug (third-person singular simple present chugs, present participle chugging, simple past and past participle chugged)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English derogatory terms",
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I got chugged in the town centre today.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, UK slang, derogatory) To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"derogatory",
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/t͡ʃʌɡ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌɡ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-chug.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6a/En-us-chug.ogg/En-us-chug.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/En-us-chug.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "chŭg"
}
],
"word": "chug"
}
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