See hoar in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
{
"enpr": "hôr",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/hoɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-ca-whore.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ed/En-ca-whore.ogg/En-ca-whore.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/En-ca-whore.ogg"
},
{
"enpr": "hōr",
"note": "rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/ho(ː)ɹ/",
"note": "rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/hoə/",
"note": "non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "whore"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"hoar (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "hoar"
}
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