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"text": "But Louis Vuitton bras all over your breasts / Got me wanting to put hickeys all over your chest",
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"ref": "2005, William Cane, The Art of Kissing, 2nd edition, St. Martin's Griffin, page 128",
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
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"word": "tsikinini"
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"(printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area."
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"ref": "2018, Paul W. Ross, Revival: The Handbook of Software for Engineers and Scientists",
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
"word": "maasikas"
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
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"word": "chupón"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "bruise-like mark",
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
"word": "נשיכת אהבה"
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"sense": "bruise-like mark",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"word": "moretón"
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"word": "sugmärke"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "bruise-like mark",
"word": "tsikinini"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "bruise-like mark",
"word": "aşk ısırığı"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
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"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
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"word": "truc"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "machin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "bidule"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
"tags": [
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"word": "cacharro"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
"tags": [
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"word": "chisme"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
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"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
"word": "mackapär"
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"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
"word": "mojäng"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
"word": "grunka"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
"word": "manick"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled",
"word": "grej"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface",
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"word": "pecka"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "swelling in a tissue area",
"tags": [
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"word": "zwelling"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "swelling in a tissue area",
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"word": "knobbel"
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"code": "fi",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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