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"text": "“Hold your tongue, beadle,” said the second old gentleman, when Mr. Bumble had given vent to this compound adjective.\n“I beg your worship’s pardon,” said Mr. Bumble, incredulous of his having heard aright,—“did your worship speak to me?”\n“Yes—hold your tongue.”",
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"word": "purra kieltänsä"
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"word": "pitää suunsa kiinni"
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"word": "tenir sa langue"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "den Mund halten"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "κρατάω το στόμα μου κλειστό"
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"word": "κρατώ το στόμα μου κλειστό"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "befogja a száját"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "þegja þunnu hljóði"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "tenere a freno la lingua"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "tenere la bocca chiusa"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "噤む"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "favete linguis"
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"word": "whakatōngā"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "morder a língua"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
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"word": "a-și ține gura"
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"word": "молча́ть как ры́ба об лёд"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "набра́ть воды́ в рот"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "mantener la boca cerrada"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "morderse la lengua"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "cerrar el pico"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "knipa igen"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "knipa käft"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "tiga"
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"sense": "refrain from talking about something — see also shut up",
"word": "בײַסן זיך די צונג"
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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 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.