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{
"etymology_text": "Probably related to claw; referred by some to Dutch kleed (“a garment”); \"to fake a cly\" was to take a garment.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "clies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "clying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "clied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "clied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 34:",
"text": "Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's prig in sport.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To seize; to steal."
],
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"links": [
[
"seize",
"seize"
],
[
"steal",
"steal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, obsolete, transitive) To seize; to steal."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
}
],
"word": "cly"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Probably related to claw; referred by some to Dutch kleed (“a garment”); \"to fake a cly\" was to take a garment.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "clies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "cly (plural clies)",
"name": "en-noun"
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],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "50 50",
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},
{
"_dis": "64 36",
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"_dis": "64 36",
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}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "clyfaker"
},
{
"word": "clyfaking"
},
{
"word": "frisk someone's cly"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person's pocket."
],
"id": "en-cly-en-noun-jwxd3wIA",
"links": [
[
"pocket",
"pocket"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, obsolete) A person's pocket."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
}
],
"word": "cly"
}
{
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/aɪ",
"Rhymes:English/aɪ/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_text": "Probably related to claw; referred by some to Dutch kleed (“a garment”); \"to fake a cly\" was to take a garment.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "clies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "clying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "clied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "clied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-verb"
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{
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 34:",
"text": "Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's prig in sport.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To seize; to steal."
],
"links": [
[
"seize",
"seize"
],
[
"steal",
"steal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, obsolete, transitive) To seize; to steal."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
}
],
"word": "cly"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
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"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/aɪ",
"Rhymes:English/aɪ/1 syllable"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "clyfaker"
},
{
"word": "clyfaking"
},
{
"word": "frisk someone's cly"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably related to claw; referred by some to Dutch kleed (“a garment”); \"to fake a cly\" was to take a garment.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "clies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-noun"
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
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"English slang",
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],
"glosses": [
"A person's pocket."
],
"links": [
[
"pocket",
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, obsolete) A person's pocket."
],
"tags": [
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"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
}
],
"word": "cly"
}
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