See mosey in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "wyruszyć"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to go off quickly",
"word": "losrennen"
},
{
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to go off quickly",
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"sense": "to amble",
"tags": [
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"word": "iść spokojnym krokiem"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to amble",
"word": "släntra"
}
],
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"Hairy, furry."
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"bold_text_offsets": [
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33,
38
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],
"ref": "1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 10:",
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