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"ref": "2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in The New York Times",
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"ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 38",
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"name": "en-interj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun."
],
"links": [
[
"sound",
"sound"
],
[
"firing",
"fire#Verb"
],
[
"gun",
"gun"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pjuː/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uː"
},
{
"homophone": "Pugh"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pew.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/29/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pew.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pew.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/29/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pew.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pew.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "pew"
}
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