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{
"etymology_text": "From Muppet, from the Muppets franchise",
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"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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"pos": "noun",
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"extra": "a puppet in the style of Jim Henson's Muppets",
"word": "Muppet"
}
],
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"_dis": "70 30",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Puppets",
"orig": "en:Puppets",
"parents": [
"Toys",
"Recreation",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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}
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"Alternative form of Muppet (“a puppet in the style of Jim Henson's Muppets”)"
],
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"Muppet",
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],
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"puppet"
]
],
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{
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{
"kind": "other",
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{
"kind": "other",
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"_dis": "33 67",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Sally is such a muppet, the way she always misses the train."
},
{
"text": "Some muppets parked a car at the bus stop."
},
{
"ref": "1996 April 18, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)",
"text": "You impudent muppet, diu lay! You may be able to hoodwink people over in the UK, but not those of us over here.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Ruth Saberton, Ellie Andrews Has Second Thoughts, Hachette UK",
"text": "'Honestly, Ellie, I don't know why you bother.' 'Err, because I need to squeeze my size twelve self into a size eight wedding dress?' She rolls her eyes. 'You're such a muppet. Why didn't you just buy a bigger size? Dieting is pointless.'",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Penny Smith, Summer Holiday, HarperCollins UK",
"text": "There was a silence while Miranda tried to form a sentence that wouldn't antagonise her friend. Or was she a friend? Would a proper friend have set her up with such a – such a muppet?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Diane Perry, Red Kite, Lulu.com, page 29",
"text": "The truth was I'd love to be in the school team but I wouldn't get picked anyway: most of the kids think I'm a real muppet, a gormo who's into bird-watching and if I tried to join in, they would just rib me, so I don't bother to show any interest.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Jane Reynolds, Just Good Friends?, eBook Partnership",
"text": "Scrappy set off to run out through the dog flap, but Katie caught hold of him (as he was such a muppet he'd be in danger – as usual – of ending up under the wheels of whoever's Chelsea tractor was scrunching its way up the gravel driveway).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Dan Brotzel, Hotel du Jack: And Other Stories, Sandstone Press Ltd",
"text": "Anyway here was a message now, from 'Geordie', sent to Jack and cc-ed to the rest of his male colleagues. Subject line: 'You've been replaced with a real muppet.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An incompetent or foolish person."
],
"id": "en-muppet-en-noun-ZqDTa~i1",
"links": [
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"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"incompetent",
"incompetent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eastern US, South Africa, slang, derogatory) An incompetent or foolish person."
],
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"Canada",
"Eastern",
"Ireland",
"New-Zealand",
"South-Africa",
"UK",
"US",
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"word": "tollo"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"word": "törppö"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"word": "tolvana"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tolo"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tola"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bolvan",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "болван"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mupp"
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]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈmʌpɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌpɛt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌpət/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(Received Pronunciation) -ʌpɪt"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-muppet.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-muppet.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
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}
],
"word": "muppet"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/ʌpɪt",
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"en:Puppets"
],
"etymology_text": "From Muppet, from the Muppets franchise",
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"plural"
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}
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"word": "Muppet"
}
],
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"Alternative form of Muppet (“a puppet in the style of Jim Henson's Muppets”)"
],
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"Muppet",
"Muppet#English"
],
[
"puppet",
"puppet"
]
],
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"alternative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"British English",
"Canadian English",
"English derogatory terms",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Irish English",
"New Zealand English",
"South African English"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Sally is such a muppet, the way she always misses the train."
},
{
"text": "Some muppets parked a car at the bus stop."
},
{
"ref": "1996 April 18, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)",
"text": "You impudent muppet, diu lay! You may be able to hoodwink people over in the UK, but not those of us over here.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Ruth Saberton, Ellie Andrews Has Second Thoughts, Hachette UK",
"text": "'Honestly, Ellie, I don't know why you bother.' 'Err, because I need to squeeze my size twelve self into a size eight wedding dress?' She rolls her eyes. 'You're such a muppet. Why didn't you just buy a bigger size? Dieting is pointless.'",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Penny Smith, Summer Holiday, HarperCollins UK",
"text": "There was a silence while Miranda tried to form a sentence that wouldn't antagonise her friend. Or was she a friend? Would a proper friend have set her up with such a – such a muppet?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Diane Perry, Red Kite, Lulu.com, page 29",
"text": "The truth was I'd love to be in the school team but I wouldn't get picked anyway: most of the kids think I'm a real muppet, a gormo who's into bird-watching and if I tried to join in, they would just rib me, so I don't bother to show any interest.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Jane Reynolds, Just Good Friends?, eBook Partnership",
"text": "Scrappy set off to run out through the dog flap, but Katie caught hold of him (as he was such a muppet he'd be in danger – as usual – of ending up under the wheels of whoever's Chelsea tractor was scrunching its way up the gravel driveway).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Dan Brotzel, Hotel du Jack: And Other Stories, Sandstone Press Ltd",
"text": "Anyway here was a message now, from 'Geordie', sent to Jack and cc-ed to the rest of his male colleagues. Subject line: 'You've been replaced with a real muppet.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An incompetent or foolish person."
],
"links": [
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"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"incompetent",
"incompetent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eastern US, South Africa, slang, derogatory) An incompetent or foolish person."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"Canada",
"Eastern",
"Ireland",
"New-Zealand",
"South-Africa",
"UK",
"US",
"derogatory",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌpɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌpɛt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌpət/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(Received Pronunciation) -ʌpɪt"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-muppet.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-muppet.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"word": "tollo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"word": "törppö"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"word": "tolvana"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tolo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tola"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bolvan",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "болван"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "incompetent or foolish person",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mupp"
}
],
"word": "muppet"
}
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