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"word": "গৰাহ"
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"word": "bocado"
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"english": "drink",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "samuol"
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"word": "คำ"
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"text": "“Unquestionably his metabolism is unduly susceptible to stresses resulting from the interaction of external excitations,” he said, and Bobbie patted him on the shoulder in a maternal sort of way, a thing I wouldn't have cared to do myself though our relations were, as I have indicated, more cordial than they had been at one time, and told him he had said a mouthful.",
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"text": "“Yes, you may leave this little matter entirely to me, Mr Wooster.” “I wish you'd call me Bertie.” “Certainly, certainly.” “And might I call you Roderick?” “I shall be delighted.” “Or Roddy? Roderick's rather a mouthful.” “Whichever you prefer.”",
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"ref": "1980, The Economic Studies - Volume 21, page 7",
"text": "The sufferers are regaled with such mouthful promises by every party on the eve of the successive elections and thereafter they continue to be shouted with unabated vigour by the party occupying the saddle while the problems are relegated to the limbo of time to find out their own solutions.",
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"ref": "1981, The Diliman Review - Volume 29, page 74",
"text": "Angley then drifts into his hourful, mouthful extempore, accentuated with refrains of \"cast the demon away with the power of the Lord.\"",
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"ref": "1995, Susan Spano, Matthew Debord, Sherill Tippins, Frommer's Irreverent Guide: Manhattan and New York, page 59",
"text": "...how else to explain such mouthful menu offerings as plantain-coated mahi mahi with fufu and lily salad and boneless braised short ribs with Paraguayan chipaguasu?",
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"ref": "2010, Alexander Irvine, Iron Man 2: The Junior Novel, page 77",
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"word": "belt"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:mouthful",
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"source": "Thesaurus:mouthful",
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"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "gorah",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "গৰাহ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hapka",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "my",
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"roman": "lup",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "လုပ်"
},
{
"code": "ca",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "mossegada"
},
{
"code": "ca",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "ca",
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"masculine"
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"word": "mos"
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "mondjevol"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "suullinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gorgée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bouchée"
},
{
"code": "roa-gal",
"lang": "Gallo",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "becheil"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Mondvoll"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "boukiá",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μπουκιά"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "koḷiyo",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "કોળિયો"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "falat"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "bokedo"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bolgam"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lán béil"
},
{
"code": "ist",
"lang": "Istriot",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bucun"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boccone"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boccata"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "morso"
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "buccea"
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "buccella"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
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"masculine"
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"word": "за́лак"
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{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kęs"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "bocado"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gură"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "îmbucătură"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"food",
"lifestyle"
],
"word": "кусо́к"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "drink",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "глото́к"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "balgam"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "за̏лога̄ј"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
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"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "zȁlogāj"
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{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vuccuni"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bocado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "munfull"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "samuol"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kam",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "คำ"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "hoplam"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"word": "tishlam"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bocon"
},
{
"code": "cy",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cegaid"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "llond ceg"
},
{
"code": "zu",
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"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"class-5"
],
"word": "ithamo"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "amount that will fit in a mouth",
"tags": [
"class-3"
],
"word": "umthamo"
}
],
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"ref": "1977, Asok Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Panchayat Administration in West Bengal",
"text": "Once this happens to be the result, there is little reason for waxing over such mouthful phrases as 'grass-roots democracy', 'democratic decentralization' or 'panchayati raj'.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1980, The Economic Studies - Volume 21, page 7",
"text": "The sufferers are regaled with such mouthful promises by every party on the eve of the successive elections and thereafter they continue to be shouted with unabated vigour by the party occupying the saddle while the problems are relegated to the limbo of time to find out their own solutions.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1981, The Diliman Review - Volume 29, page 74",
"text": "Angley then drifts into his hourful, mouthful extempore, accentuated with refrains of \"cast the demon away with the power of the Lord.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Susan Spano, Matthew Debord, Sherill Tippins, Frommer's Irreverent Guide: Manhattan and New York, page 59",
"text": "...how else to explain such mouthful menu offerings as plantain-coated mahi mahi with fufu and lily salad and boneless braised short ribs with Paraguayan chipaguasu?",
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