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}
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"English lemmas",
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"en:Smoking"
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"etymology_text": "Related to dote, dotard.",
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"form": "dottles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
"A dotard."
],
"links": [
[
"dotard",
"dotard"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland) A dotard."
],
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"Scotland"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈdɒtəl/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒtəl"
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],
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{
"word": "dodipole"
},
{
"word": "dotel"
},
{
"word": "dotard"
}
],
"word": "dottle"
}
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