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"forms": [
{
"form": "clapperclaws",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "clapperclawing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "clapperclawed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "clapperclawed",
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"past"
]
}
],
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1909, John Hookham Frere translating Aristophanes, Acharnians",
"text": "Steady, Birds! present your beaks! in double time, charge and attack,\nPounce upon them, smash the potlid, clapperclaw them, tear and hack.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fight and scratch."
],
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"(obsolete) To fight and scratch."
],
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]
},
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"glosses": [
"To abuse with words; to revile; to scold."
],
"id": "en-clapperclaw-en-verb-z0Go9wYJ",
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"revile",
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"(obsolete) To abuse with words; to revile; to scold."
],
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},
{
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"participle",
"present"
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},
{
"form": "clapperclawed",
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"participle",
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},
{
"form": "clapperclawed",
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"ref": "1909, John Hookham Frere translating Aristophanes, Acharnians",
"text": "Steady, Birds! present your beaks! in double time, charge and attack,\nPounce upon them, smash the potlid, clapperclaw them, tear and hack.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To fight and scratch."
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"(obsolete) To fight and scratch."
],
"tags": [
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},
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],
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"To abuse with words; to revile; to scold."
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"(obsolete) To abuse with words; to revile; to scold."
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"synonyms": [
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"word": "capperclaw"
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],
"word": "clapperclaw"
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