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"etymology_text": "The colloquial sense was coined in the 1950s. Sex has been likened to meat since as early as the 16th century, with such references to it as \"have a jumble in the giblets\" and \"have a bit of mutton\", not to mention \"carnal relations\".",
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"sense": "market where meat is sold",
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"word": "Fleischmarkt"
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"sense": "market where meat is sold",
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"sense": "market where meat is sold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "margadh feola"
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"_dis1": "89 9 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "market where meat is sold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mercato della carne"
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"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "market where meat is sold",
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"masculine"
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"word": "margadh na feòla"
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"ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group",
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"word": "lihatiski"
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"sense": "place for a casual sexual encounter",
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"sense": "place for a casual sexual encounter",
"word": "köttmarknad"
}
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"word": "Fleischmarkt"
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"word": "Fleischerei"
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"word": "kjötmarkaður"
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"sense": "market where meat is sold",
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"masculine"
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"word": "margadh feola"
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"sense": "market where meat is sold",
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"masculine"
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"word": "mercato della carne"
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"sense": "market where meat is sold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "margadh na feòla"
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"sense": "place for a casual sexual encounter",
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"tags": [
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"word": "margadh leathair"
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"sense": "place for a casual sexual encounter",
"tags": [
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"word": "margadh craicinn"
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"sense": "place for a casual sexual encounter",
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