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"etymology_text": "From the fact that the telephone operators would greet callers with “Hello” when contacted.",
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"ref": "1884 September, “The International Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia, Sept. 2, 1884”, in F. L. Pope, editor, The Electrician and Electrical Engineer. A Monthly Review of Theoretical and Applied Science, volume III, New York, N.Y.: Electrical Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 193, column 2",
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"ref": "1893, J[ohn] T. Pettee, “Annual Address: A Review of the Year 1892 by the President”, in Transactions of the Scientific Association, Meriden, Conn., Meriden, Conn.: Press of E. A. Horton & Co., →OCLC, page 17",
"text": "Surely, we must include the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the \"hello-girl\" are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise to give us telephone service at half the present rates, it will afford us an illustration of \"applied science,\" which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.",
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"ref": "2001, Ken Follett, chapter 17, in Jackdaws, London: Macmillan; republished New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2002, page 162",
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"A female telephone operator."
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"(telephony, informal, dated) A female telephone operator."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(informal) female telephone operator — see also telephone girl",
"word": "sentraalisantra"
},
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"sense": "(informal) female telephone operator — see also telephone girl",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "(informal) female telephone operator — see also telephone girl",
"word": "sentraalisantra"
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"sense": "(informal) female telephone operator — see also telephone girl",
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