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}
],
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{
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"English slang",
"en:Underwater diving"
],
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"To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving)."
],
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[
"underwater",
"underwater"
],
[
"diving",
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],
[
"suffer",
"suffer"
],
[
"impaired",
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],
[
"judgment",
"judgment"
],
[
"nitrogen narcosis",
"nitrogen narcosis"
],
[
"scuba diving",
"scuba diving"
]
],
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"(underwater diving, slang) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving)."
],
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"slang"
],
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"diving",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports",
"underwater-diving"
]
}
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"ipa": "/nɑːk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/nɑːɹk/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)k"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-narc.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/En-au-narc.ogg/En-au-narc.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/En-au-narc.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "näk"
},
{
"enpr": "närk"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"narc"
],
"word": "narc"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Requests for gender in Dutch entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)k",
"Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)k/1 syllable",
"nl-noun plural matches generated form"
],
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "narcissist"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of narcissist",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
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{
"form": "narcs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "narc (plural narcs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
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{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English informal terms"
],
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"A narcissist."
],
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"narcissist",
"narcissist"
]
],
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"(colloquial, informal) A narcissist."
],
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"tags": [
"UK"
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"ipa": "/nɑːɹk/",
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"US"
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"tags": [
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{
"enpr": "näk"
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{
"enpr": "närk"
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"narc"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 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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