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"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […]",
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"code": "pot",
"lang": "Potawatomi",
"sense": "Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes",
"word": "wesawangé"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "djátel",
"sense": "Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дя́тел"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"flicker"
],
"word": "flicker"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English frequentative verbs",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
"English terms with homophones",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"en:Light",
"en:Time",
"en:Woodpeckers"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "bean flicker"
},
{
"word": "flea flicker"
}
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "flick",
"3": "er",
"id2": "agent noun"
},
"expansion": "flick + -er",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From flick + -er.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "flickers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "flicker (plural flickers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"One who flicks."
],
"links": [
[
"flick",
"flick"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈflɪkə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-flicker.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flicker.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flicker.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flicker.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flicker.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈflɪkɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪkə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "Flickr"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"flicker"
],
"word": "flicker"
}
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