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"alt_of": [
{
"word": "fool"
}
],
"categories": [
"English pronunciation spellings",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2020, J. Lewis Johnson, A Dark Night in the Fieldhouse",
"text": "[page 10:] \"I knew you'd be scared,\" Reggie laughed. \"What are you doin', foo? You must be crazy. You don't scare me.\" \"Then why did you almost fall out of that chair? I scare everyone.\"\n[page 38:] \"This is coo,\" said Fred. \"It's almost like being there.\" \"We are there, foo!\" said Reggie as the boys slapped palms.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Pronunciation spelling of fool."
],
"links": [
[
"Pronunciation spelling",
"pronunciation spelling"
],
[
"fool",
"fool#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) Pronunciation spelling of fool."
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"pronunciation-spelling",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fuː/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uː"
},
{
"homophone": "-fu"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-foo.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/En-au-foo.ogg/En-au-foo.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/En-au-foo.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "foo'"
}
],
"word": "foo"
}
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