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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "namjók",
"sense": "a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "намёк"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion",
"word": "insinuacija"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion",
"word": "insinuación"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "insinuation"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion",
"word": "parinig"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion",
"word": "patama"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "patutsada"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"insinuation"
],
"word": "insinuation"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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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