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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dog ear"
},
{
"word": "dogear"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication)",
"word": "taittaa hiirenkorvalle"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication)",
"word": "taittaa sivun kulma"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication)",
"word": "corner"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "lap",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication)",
"word": "behajtja a sarkát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "the latter may be ambiguous",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication)",
"word": "szamárfület hajlít/csinál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication)",
"word": "szamárfülez"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication)",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
],
"word": "fazer orelha"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"dog ears"
],
"word": "dog-ear"
}
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