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"_dis1": "76 18 4 3",
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"A language game akin to pig Latin."
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"Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time."
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"(colloquial) Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time."
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"etymology_text": "From double (“twice, i.e. more than”) + Dutch.\nFor sense 1: Dutch (which historically had a wider meaning) as a foreign language was not easily understood, so anything completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch. Sense 2 expands on this meaning.",
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"Incomprehensible language."
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"A language game akin to pig Latin."
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"Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time."
],
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"(colloquial) Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time."
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{
"word": "gibberish"
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{
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"roman": "nerazbiraem ezik",
"sense": "incomprehensible language",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "неразбираем език"
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{
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
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"neuter"
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"word": "wartaal"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"word": "siansaksa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"word": "heprea"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "charabia"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Kauderwelsch"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"roman": "kinézika",
"sense": "incomprehensible language",
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"plural"
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"word": "κινέζικα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"word": "halandzsa"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
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],
"word": "arabo"
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "turco"
},
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
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"feminine"
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"word": "chińszczyzna"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "grego"
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"roman": "tarabárščina",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "тараба́рщина"
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"roman": "kitájskaja grámota",
"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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},
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"word": "saçmalık"
},
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"word": "anlaşılmaz"
},
{
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"sense": "incomprehensible language",
"word": "deli saçması"
}
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}
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