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}
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"ref": "2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255",
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[
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{
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{
"word": "puzzle"
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{
"word": "riddle"
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"text": "2004, Martha Stewart, statement read before being sentenced to five months in prison\nAnd while I am more concerned about the well-being of others than for myself, more hurt for them and for their losses than for my own, more worried for their futures than for the future of Martha Stewart the person, you are faced with a conundrum, a problem of monumental, to me, proportions."
},
{
"ref": "2011, Jemma Purdey, From Vienna to Yogyakarta",
"text": "Herb was initially overcome by Jakarta ('The impressions of noise, chaos, tremendous crowdedness and I suppose whitelessness were perhaps the strongest, and I felt something of a stranger') and faced with the familiar conundrum ('again the sensation of the thousands of hungry people all around –happy looking often, pluckily cheerful but in fact hungry –is strange and upsetting'), but he quickly slipped into the volunteer lifestyle with relish, borrowing a bike from Soewarto, a friend from Kempen, and spending a lot of his time with volunteers, including Lance Castles and John Gare.",
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[
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{
"word": "dilemma"
}
]
}
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{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "gluxkotruk",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "գլուխկոտրուկ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
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"roman": "haneluk",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "հանելուկ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
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"roman": "aṙeġcvac",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "առեղծված"
},
{
"code": "ba",
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"roman": "başvatqıs",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "башватҡыс"
},
{
"code": "ba",
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"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "йомаҡ"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "gatanka",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гатанка"
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{
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"roman": "zagadka",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "загадка"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "endevinalla"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hádanka"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rébus"
},
{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hlavolam"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gåde"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "raadsel"
},
{
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"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "hersenbreker"
},
{
"code": "eo",
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"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "enigmo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "arvoitus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "kompakysymys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "kompa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "énigme"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "problème"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "casse-tête"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "adiviña"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "deviñanza"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Rätsel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Scherzfrage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "schwierige Frage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vexierfrage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rätselfrage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kopfzerbrecher"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aínigma",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "αίνιγμα"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "grífos",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "γρίφος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "spazokefaliá",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"feminine"
],
"word": "σπαζοκεφαλιά"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "találós kérdés"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "rejtvény"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "rompicapo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enigma"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "indovinello"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "rebus"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "gátanka",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "га́танка"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zágatka",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "за́гатка"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "probleme"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "gåte"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zagadka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "adivinha"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zagádka",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "зага́дка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "golovolómka",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "головоло́мка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zavrzlama"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nimma"
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{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nnivinagghia"
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{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hlavolam"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hádanka"
},
{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "problém"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "adivinanza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "acertijo"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "paisip"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "bilmece"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "difficult question or riddle",
"word": "muamma"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dilema",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дилема"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dilema"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dilema"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hovedbrud"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dilemma"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"word": "pulma"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dilemme"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dilema"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tavsaṭexi",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"word": "თავსატეხი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Dilemma"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Qual der Wahl"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Entscheidungsfrage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Zwickmühle"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dílimma",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "δίλημμα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"word": "dilemma"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dilemma"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enigma"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nedoúmica",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "недоу́мица"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "diléma",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "диле́ма"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dylemat"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dilema"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dilemă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dilémma",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "диле́мма"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dilimma"
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{
"code": "scn",
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"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "nimma"
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{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "dubbiu"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "interrogante"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dilema"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enigma"
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{
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "difficult choice or decision",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dilemma"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Conimbricenses"
],
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