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"ref": "1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad",
"text": "… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.",
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"(informal, uncountable) Superfluous information."
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"(informal, uncountable) Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks."
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"word": "brass neck"
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"word": "lip"
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"A fart; act of breaking wind."
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"(slang, countable) A fart; act of breaking wind."
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"(slang) To fart."
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"_dis1": "95 5",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "break wind",
"word": "пърдя"
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"sense": "break wind",
"word": "protten"
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"ref": "1955 October, Rex Stout, “The Next Witness”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, page 14",
"text": "\"Let me see if I get you. You can't bear to help convict Ashe of murder because you doubt if he's guilty, so you're scooting. Right?\"\n[…]\"That's close enough,\" Wolfe said.\n\"Not close enough for me. If you expect me to[…] invite a stiff fine for running out on a subpoena[…], don't try to guff me. Say we doubt if Ashe is guilty, but we think he may get tagged because we know Mandelbaum wouldn't go to trial without a good case. Say also our bank account needs a shot in the arm, which is true. So we decide to see if we can[…]\"",
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]
},
{
"form": "guffed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "guffed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
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"args": {},
"expansion": "guff (third-person singular simple present guffs, present participle guffing, simple past and past participle guffed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English slang"
],
"glosses": [
"To fart."
],
"links": [
[
"fart",
"fart"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) To fart."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1955 October, Rex Stout, “The Next Witness”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, page 14",
"text": "\"Let me see if I get you. You can't bear to help convict Ashe of murder because you doubt if he's guilty, so you're scooting. Right?\"\n[…]\"That's close enough,\" Wolfe said.\n\"Not close enough for me. If you expect me to[…] invite a stiff fine for running out on a subpoena[…], don't try to guff me. Say we doubt if Ashe is guilty, but we think he may get tagged because we know Mandelbaum wouldn't go to trial without a good case. Say also our bank account needs a shot in the arm, which is true. So we decide to see if we can[…]\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To mislead."
],
"links": [
[
"mislead",
"mislead"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) To mislead."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɡʌf/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌf"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-guff.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/En-au-guff.ogg/En-au-guff.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/En-au-guff.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "gŭf"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "mislead",
"word": "To bullshit"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pǎrdja",
"sense": "break wind",
"word": "пърдя"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "break wind",
"word": "protten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "break wind",
"word": "scheten laten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "break wind",
"word": "winden laten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "break wind",
"word": "pupen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "break wind",
"word": "pupsen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "break wind",
"word": "furzen"
}
],
"word": "guff"
}
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