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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 262",
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}
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"Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals."
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"red wine",
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],
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"baby"
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[
"mouse",
"mouse"
],
[
"food",
"food"
],
[
"snake",
"snake"
]
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
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"English ethnic slurs",
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"English slang"
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"A white person."
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"ethnic"
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[
"slur",
"slur"
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"slang",
"slur",
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"ref": "2001 May 3, Lindsay Vincent, “Re: snapper fishing in Victoria”, in aus.sport.fishing (Usenet)",
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}
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[
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"sense": "slang: methylated spirits",
"word": "tenttu"
},
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"sense": "slang: methylated spirits",
"word": "tenu"
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"sense": "baby mouse",
"word": "musido"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "baby mouse",
"word": "pinkki"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "baby mouse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neugeborene Maus"
}
],
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"pinky"
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}
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"en:Fingers",
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{
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{
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{
"word": "pinky swear"
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{
"word": "pinky-swear"
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{
"word": "pinky promise"
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"ref": "2003, Billoo Badhshah, The Unofficial Joke Book of Australia, page 126",
"text": "Everyday as he passes them, the hookers wave at him with their pinkies and say, “Hi there, little boy!”",
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}
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"sense": "smallest finger or toe",
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{
"sense": "smallest finger or toe",
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},
{
"sense": "smallest finger or toe",
"word": "little piggy"
},
{
"sense": "smallest finger or toe",
"word": "digit V"
},
{
"sense": "smallest finger or toe",
"word": "fifth digit"
}
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