See clanker in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
"text": "Stop telling clankers!",
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52,
60
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"ref": "1899, Paul Leicester Ford, Janice Meredith, page 388:",
"text": "Have done with all thought of the fellow and of his clankers concerning his birth.",
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15
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"ref": "2010, Maggie MacKeever, Our Tabby, →ISBN:",
"text": "\"What a clanker!\" Drusilla protested. \"You're hardly setting us a good example, Pa!\"",
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"ref": "2020, Anna Lee Huber, A Stroke of Malice, →ISBN, page 41:",
"text": "His lips quirked. \"It's more likely you'll wish to spend the evening debating whether these clankers his lordship is telling us are true, and how they originated.\"",
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"A fib."
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"(slang) A fib."
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"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
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"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "bollocks"
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"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "bullshit"
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"word": "canard"
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"Internet",
"slang"
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"word": "cap"
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"word": "chin"
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"word": "fabrication"
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"word": "falsehood"
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{
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"word": "fib"
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"word": "flam"
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{
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"word": "goof"
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{
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"word": "hoax"
},
{
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"word": "hummer"
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{
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"word": "inveracity"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "inverity"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"tags": [
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"word": "jive"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "lie"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "mendacity"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "misinformation"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "mistruth"
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{
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"word": "nonsense"
},
{
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"word": "nontruth"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"tags": [
"Cockney",
"slang"
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"word": "pork pie"
},
{
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"tags": [
"UK",
"slang"
],
"word": "porker"
},
{
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"slang"
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{
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"word": "prevarication"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "red flag"
},
{
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"word": "rubbish"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "story"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated",
"slang"
],
"word": "swack-up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "tall tale"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"tags": [
"euphemistic",
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "terminological inexactitude"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "untruism"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "untruth"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"word": "whopper"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lie",
"tags": [
"UK",
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"slang"
],
"word": "wisker"
},
{
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"UK",
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"word": "yanker"
},
{
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"tags": [
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"word": "yed"
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],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "klănkər"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈklæŋkəɹ/",
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"US"
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},
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "one that clanks",
"word": "kolistaja"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"sense": "one that clanks",
"word": "pelentang"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"sense": "one that clanks",
"word": "pengelentung"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "slur for robots",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tas de ferraille"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "slur for robots",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boîte de conserve"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "žestjánka",
"sense": "slur for robots",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "жестя́нка"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"IMDb",
"NPR",
"Star Wars",
"Star Wars: Republic Commando"
],
"word": "clanker"
}
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