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"sense": "a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm",
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"_dis1": "35 65",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "by extension, to mishandle any situation",
"word": "möhliä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "by extension, to mishandle any situation",
"word": "töpätä"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"muff"
],
"word": "muff"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/ʌf",
"Rhymes:English/ʌf/1 syllable",
"en:Genitalia",
"en:Hair"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_text": "Shortening.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "muffs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "muff (plural muffs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Lindsay G. Arthur, The Litigators, page 63",
"text": "Skinny lattes and a couple of blueberry muffs.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A muffin."
],
"links": [
[
"muffin",
"muffin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A muffin."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mʌf/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌf"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-muff.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/En-au-muff.ogg/En-au-muff.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/En-au-muff.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"muff"
],
"word": "muff"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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