See loon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1971, Marc Bolan (lyrics and music), “Cosmic Dancer”, in Electric Warrior, performed by T. Rex:",
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"text": "The diuell damne thee blacke, thou cream-fac'd Loone: Where got'ſt thou that Gooſe-looke.",
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{
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"ref": "1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 31:",
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"ref": "1921, Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Blue-Flag in the Bog”, in Second April:",
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"code": "it",
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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mobelha"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mergulhão"
},
{
"code": "pot",
"lang": "Potawatomi",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"word": "mang"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cufundar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bodârlău"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "corcodel"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gagára",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гага́ра"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "learga"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "гњу́рац"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "плијенор"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "gnjúrac"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "plijenor"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "potáplica"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "slapnik"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colimbo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "lom"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"word": "dalgıç"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"word": "dalgıçkuşu"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "hahara",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гагара"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "bird of order Gaviiformes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trochydd"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"loon"
],
"word": "loon"
}
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