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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "nonsense", "3": "word" }, "expansion": "nonsense + word", "name": "com" } ], "etymology_text": "From nonsense + word.", "forms": [ { "form": "nonsense words", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "nonsense word (plural nonsense words)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "neologism" }, { "word": "non-word" }, { "word": "nonce word" }, { "word": "protologism" }, { "word": "pseudoword" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English compound terms", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "Terms with Finnish translations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1983, Michael E. Adelstein, Wendell Keats Sparrow, Business communications:", "text": "George Bernard Shaw's classic joke about English spelling is that his nonsense word ghoti should be pronounced fish. He explained: gh = like the gh in cough = fo = like the o in women = i ti = like the ti in nation = sh ghoti = fish.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A neologised word that does not have a given meaning, or that has been invented without any etymological sense." ], "links": [ [ "neologise", "neologise" ], [ "meaning", "meaning" ], [ "invent", "invent" ], [ "etymological", "etymological" ] ] } ], "translations": [ { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "type of word", "word": "pseudosana" } ], "word": "nonsense word" }
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