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"To perform filk music."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To perform filk music."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To participate in a filk circle, including singing along."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To participate in a filk circle, including singing along."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1997 (?: \"July A.S. XXXI\") Medieval Melodies for Filking\nHowever, the practice of filking, of taking an existing melody and providing new, usually topical and/or satirical, lyrics, is in fact the direct counterpart of the Medieval practice of writing contrafacta."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To write a parody of (a song)."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To write a parody of (a song)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fɪlk/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-filk.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/43/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-filk.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-filk.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/43/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-filk.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-filk.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪlk"
}
],
"word": "filk"
}
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