"dewey" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more dewey",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most dewey",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "dewy"
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          "ref": "1852, The Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture:",
          "text": "115 lbs. of green, dewey grass",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:",
          "text": "For Memnon was that dewey, royal boy, son of Aurora, and born King of Egypt, who, with enthusiastic rashness flinging himself on another’s account into a rightful quarrel, fought hand to hand with his overmatch, and met his boyish and most dolorous death beneath the walls of Troy.",
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        "Obsolete form of dewy."
      ],
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          "dewy#English"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "dewey"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "A phonetic pronunciation of the initialism DUI, particularly in some rural areas of the US.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deweys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 99",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
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          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A charge of DUI."
      ],
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          "DUI"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, slang, humorous, uncommon) A charge of DUI."
      ],
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  ],
  "word": "dewey"
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    "English nouns",
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    "Pages with entries"
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "more dewey",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most dewey",
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        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "115 lbs. of green, dewey grass",
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          "ref": "1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:",
          "text": "For Memnon was that dewey, royal boy, son of Aurora, and born King of Egypt, who, with enthusiastic rashness flinging himself on another’s account into a rightful quarrel, fought hand to hand with his overmatch, and met his boyish and most dolorous death beneath the walls of Troy.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete form of dewy."
      ],
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          "dewy#English"
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    }
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  "word": "dewey"
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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "A phonetic pronunciation of the initialism DUI, particularly in some rural areas of the US.",
  "forms": [
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      ],
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        "A charge of DUI."
      ],
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