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"word": "Bügel"
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"word": "ハンガー"
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"sense": "clothes hanger",
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"sense": "clothes hanger",
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"word": "percha"
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"sense": "clothes hanger",
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"word": "askı"
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"word": "kiyin osgich"
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"code": "vi",
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"word": "móc"
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"ref": "2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 440",
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"ref": "1789, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne, Page 187",
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"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "ölgüür",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "өлгүүр"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "elgügür",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"Mongolian"
],
"word": "ᠡᠯᠭᠦᠭᠦᠷ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wieszak"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cabide"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cuier"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "véšalka",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ве́шалка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pléčiki",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "пле́чики"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vešalica"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vješalica"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vešiak"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "percha"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gancho"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perchero"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"word": "sabitan"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"word": "askı"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"word": "kiyin osgich"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "clothes hanger",
"word": "móc"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kortik",
"sense": "short, curved sword",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кортик"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "short, curved sword",
"word": "hukari"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "steep, wooded slope",
"word": "metsäinen jyrkänne"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "baseball: hanging pitch",
"word": "roikkusyöttö"
}
],
"word": "hanger"
}
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"Rhymes:English/æŋɡə(ɹ)",
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"en:Suicide"
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"name": "blend"
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"pos": "noun",
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"word": "hangry"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2015, Amanda Salis, “The science behind being \"Hangry\"”, in CNN \"The conversation\"",
"text": "The physiology of hanger. The carbohydrates, proteins and fats in everything you eat are digested into simple sugars (such as glucose), amino acids and free fatty acids. These nutrients pass into your bloodstream from where they are distributed to your organs and tissues and used for energy […]",
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"Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger."
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"Hunger",
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"anger",
"anger"
]
],
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"(slang) Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger."
],
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"slang",
"uncountable"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈhaŋɡə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæŋɡɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æŋɡə(ɹ)"
}
],
"word": "hanger"
}
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