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"ref": "1852 May 12, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 3, column 2",
"text": "[T]he den of a man-eating tiger, or a mad dog, could not be more dreaded.",
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"ref": "1879 July 5, The Mercury and Weekly Courier, page 3, column 8",
"text": "The Lumbardar scouted the idea; the only man-eating leopard in those parts has been killed by the valorous sahib-thanks be to Allah!",
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"ref": "1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147",
"text": "\"As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow.\"",
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"Inclined to eat human flesh; that attacks and kills humans for food."
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"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "ihmisiä syövä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "ihmissyöjä-"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "menschenfressend"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "anthrōpophágos",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "ἀνθρωποφάγος"
},
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phagánthrōpos",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "φαγάνθρωπος"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "mannætu-"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
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"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
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"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
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"ref": "1852 May 12, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 3, column 2",
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"ref": "1879 July 5, The Mercury and Weekly Courier, page 3, column 8",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "ihmisiä syövä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "ihmissyöjä-"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "menschenfressend"
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"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "ἀνθρωποφάγος"
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"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "φαγάνθρωπος"
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"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
"word": "mannætu-"
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"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
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"sense": "inclined to eat human flesh",
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