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{
"etymology_text": "Participial form of \"leave\".",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "p"
},
"expansion": "leavings pl (plural only)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English pluralia tantum",
"parents": [
"Pluralia tantum",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The leavings were thrown to the dogs."
},
{
"text": "The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood."
],
"id": "en-leavings-en-noun-WBLRJpAn",
"links": [
[
"residuum",
"residuum"
],
[
"scraps",
"scraps"
],
[
"shaving",
"shaving"
],
[
"sawdust",
"sawdust"
]
],
"tags": [
"plural",
"plural-only"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ostatǎci",
"sense": "that which is left",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "остатъци"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which is left",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "tähteet"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "that which is left",
"word": "laf"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "that which is left",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Äwabliefsel"
}
]
}
],
"word": "leavings"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Participial form of \"leave\".",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "p"
},
"expansion": "leavings pl (plural only)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English pluralia tantum"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The leavings were thrown to the dogs."
},
{
"text": "The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood."
],
"links": [
[
"residuum",
"residuum"
],
[
"scraps",
"scraps"
],
[
"shaving",
"shaving"
],
[
"sawdust",
"sawdust"
]
],
"tags": [
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ostatǎci",
"sense": "that which is left",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "остатъци"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which is left",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "tähteet"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "that which is left",
"word": "laf"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "that which is left",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Äwabliefsel"
}
],
"word": "leavings"
}
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