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Some creepy stools, an' shelfs weel scower'd Tae hide the worm pict tim'er Tae sell that day.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "2002, Linda Lea Castle, Embrace the Sun: The Vaudrys, page 13", "text": "If you ride with the hell-spawned reivers and live as a limmer thief then you must expect to be singed by hell's fire.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Limber; flexible (either physically or morally)." ], "id": "en-limmer-en-adj-gzhASa81", "links": [ [ "Limber", "limber" ], [ "flexible", "flexible" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈlɪmə/" }, { "rhymes": "-ɪmə(ɹ)" }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-limmer.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-limmer.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-limmer.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-limmer.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-limmer.wav.ogg", "tags": [ "Southern-England" ], "text": "Audio (Southern England)" } ], "word": "limmer" }
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