"deedlee ball" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "deedlee balls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "deedlee ball (plural deedlee balls)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Jonathan Nasaw, The World on Blood, New York, N.Y.: Dutton Books, page 139",
          "text": "[…] it was only Leon, looking even droopier than usual in a floppy red felt Santa cap with a dangling white deedly-ball.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Kevin Canty, Nine Below Zero: A Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, page 75",
          "text": "He felt the touch on his shoulder, turned and it was Gil Sibbernsen, the deputy, dressed for hunting: orange shirt, green wool coat and pants, pac-boots. He was tall as Marvin but big. On his head he wore a red wool collection of flaps and plaid, topped off with a deedlee ball.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Joel Perry, Funny That Way: Adventures in Fabulousness, Los Angeles, C.A., New York, N.Y.: Alyson Books, page 164",
          "text": "Martha Stewart has turned us all into home and hearth experts. Or has she? Phenomenally successful as she is, there are still those among us who think flower-patterned drapes with deedly-ball fringe are chic. I actually knew one man so nondomestic he thought deedly-balls were what his first lover had.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A small decorative ball made of yarn."
      ],
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          "decorative",
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        ],
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          "ball",
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        ],
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          "yarn",
          "yarn#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "deedly ball"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deedlee ball"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deedlee balls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "deedlee ball (plural deedlee balls)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Jonathan Nasaw, The World on Blood, New York, N.Y.: Dutton Books, page 139",
          "text": "[…] it was only Leon, looking even droopier than usual in a floppy red felt Santa cap with a dangling white deedly-ball.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Kevin Canty, Nine Below Zero: A Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, page 75",
          "text": "He felt the touch on his shoulder, turned and it was Gil Sibbernsen, the deputy, dressed for hunting: orange shirt, green wool coat and pants, pac-boots. He was tall as Marvin but big. On his head he wore a red wool collection of flaps and plaid, topped off with a deedlee ball.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Joel Perry, Funny That Way: Adventures in Fabulousness, Los Angeles, C.A., New York, N.Y.: Alyson Books, page 164",
          "text": "Martha Stewart has turned us all into home and hearth experts. Or has she? Phenomenally successful as she is, there are still those among us who think flower-patterned drapes with deedly-ball fringe are chic. I actually knew one man so nondomestic he thought deedly-balls were what his first lover had.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A small decorative ball made of yarn."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "deedly ball"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deedlee ball"
}