"plumber" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈplʌm.ɚ/ [General-American], /pləm(b)ə(r)/ (note: Indic) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-plumber.wav Forms: plumbers [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”). The verb sense “to botch” is perhaps from the negative stereotype of the occupation. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|plumber}} Middle English plumber, {{der|en|fro|plummier}} Old French plummier, {{der|en|la|plumbārius}} Latin plumbārius Head templates: {{en-noun}} plumber (plural plumbers)
  1. (dated) One who works in or with lead. Tags: dated Translations (one who works in lead): vvs-mand [common-gender] (Danish), loodgieter [masculine] (Dutch), plumbisto (Esperanto), lyijytyöntekijä (Finnish), plombeur [masculine, obsolete] (French), Bleiarbeiter (German), Bleiarbeiterin [feminine] (German), ólomöntő (Hungarian), ólomforrasztó (Hungarian), bádogos (english: chiefly tinsmith) (Hungarian), tukang ledeng (Indonesian), tukang pipa (Indonesian), plumbārius [masculine] (Latin), chumbeiro [masculine] (Portuguese), plumbar [masculine, obsolete] (Romanian), plomero [masculine] (Spanish)
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  2. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
    Sense id: en-plumber-en-noun-GOLW5Xp- Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Occupations, People Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 25 11 23 6 17 2 4 3 4 3 3 Disambiguation of Occupations: 23 15 20 11 26 1 1 1 0 2 1 Disambiguation of People: 23 20 22 21 14 0 0 0 0 0 0
  3. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
    One who installs piping for potable and waste water.
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  4. A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.
    Sense id: en-plumber-en-noun-NTd6cgNU Categories (other): Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Occupations, People Disambiguation of Terms with Estonian translations: 15 7 14 19 23 2 4 5 4 3 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 15 7 15 18 22 4 4 5 4 3 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 15 7 14 19 23 2 4 5 4 3 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Lithuanian translations: 15 7 14 19 23 2 4 5 4 3 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 15 7 14 19 23 2 4 5 4 3 3 Disambiguation of Occupations: 23 15 20 11 26 1 1 1 0 2 1 Disambiguation of People: 23 20 22 21 14 0 0 0 0 0 0
  5. (British, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer. Tags: British, informal
    Sense id: en-plumber-en-noun-djkvZeZY Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Basque translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Burmese translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, 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  6. (slang, medicine, somewhat derogatory) A urologist. Tags: derogatory, slang
    Sense id: en-plumber-en-noun-NU3Z3LSe Categories (other): Medicine Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: nonplumber, plumber block, plumberless, plumber's cleavage, plumber's crack, plumber's helper, plumber's snake, plumber wrench, plumbery Related terms: plumbing Translations (one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage): loodgieter (Afrikaans), سَبَّاك (sabbāk) [masculine] (Arabic), مَواسِرجي (mawāserji) [South-Levantine-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), iturgin (Basque), вадаправо́дчык (vadapravódčyk) [masculine] (Belarusian), вадаправо́днік (vadapravódnik) [masculine] (Belarusian), сантэ́хнік (santéxnik) [masculine] (Belarusian), водопрово́дчик (vodoprovódčik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ရေပိုက်သမား (repuiksa.ma:) (Burmese), llauner [masculine] (Catalan), lampista [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), plomer [masculine] (Catalan), 水管工 (Shuǐguǎngōng) (Chinese Mandarin), 管子工 (guǎnzigōng) (Chinese Mandarin), 鉛管工 /铅管工 (qiānguǎngōng) (Chinese Mandarin), 水暖工 (shuǐnuǎngōng) (Chinese Mandarin), instalatér [masculine] (Czech), instalatérka [feminine] (Czech), blikkenslager [common-gender] (Danish), loodgieter [masculine] (Dutch), tubisto (Esperanto), plumbisto (Esperanto), torumees (Estonian), turulukksepp (Estonian), putkimies [masculine] (Finnish), putkiasentaja [gender-neutral] (Finnish), plombier [masculine] (French), tuyauteur [masculine] (French), homme à pipe [Louisiana, masculine] (French), fontaneiro [masculine] (Galician), მეწყალსადენე (mec̣q̇alsadene) (Georgian), Klempner [masculine] (German), Klempnerin [feminine] (German), Installateur [masculine] (German), Spengler [masculine] (German), υδραυλικός (ydravlikós) [masculine] (Greek), שְׁרַבְרַב (shravráv) [masculine] (Hebrew), कसेरा (kaserā) [masculine] (Hindi), नलकार (nalkār) [masculine] (Hindi), नलसाज़ (nalsāz) [masculine] (Hindi), प्लंबर (plambar) [masculine] (Hindi), vízvezeték-szerelő (Hungarian), gázszerelő (Hungarian), víz(vezeték)- és gázszerelő (Hungarian), víz-gáz szerelő (Hungarian), pípari [masculine] (Icelandic), pluiméir [masculine] (Irish), idraulico [masculine] (Italian), 配管工 (haikankō) (alt: はいかんこう) (Japanese), 鉛管工 (enkankō) (alt: えんかんこう) [dated] (Japanese), су құбыршы (su qūbyrşy) (Kazakh), 배관공 (baegwan'gong) (alt: 配管工) (Korean), 연관공 (yeon'gwan'gong) (alt: 鉛管工) (Korean), plumbārius [masculine] (Latin), santechnikas [masculine] (Lithuanian), водоводџија (vodovoddžija) [feminine] (Macedonian), водоинстала́тер (vodoinstaláter) [masculine] (Macedonian), plamer (Maltese), kaiaka kōrere (Maori), kaiaka paipa (Maori), mataaro kōrere (Maori), rørlegger [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), røyrleggjar [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), plombièr [masculine] (Occitan), لولهکش (lule-keš) (Persian), hydraulik [masculine] (Polish), encanador [masculine] (Portuguese), canalizador [masculine] (Portuguese), tinichigiu [masculine] (Romanian), instalator [masculine] (Romanian), водопрово́дчик (vodoprovódčik) [masculine] (Russian), санте́хник (santéxnik) [masculine] (Russian), inštalatér [masculine] (Slovak), inštalatérka [feminine] (Slovak), vodoinštalater [masculine] (Slovene), vodoinštalaterka [feminine] (Slovene), vodovodar [masculine] (Slovene), vodovodarka [feminine] (Slovene), fontanero [Colombia, Costa-Rica, El-Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain, masculine] (Spanish), gásfiter [Chile, masculine] (Spanish), gasfitero [Ecuador, Peru, masculine] (Spanish), plomero [Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican-Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto-Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, masculine] (Spanish), tubero [Philippines, masculine] (Spanish), fundi bomba (Swahili), rörmokare [common-gender] (Swedish), tubero (Tagalog), водопроводчӣ (vodoprovodči) (Tajik), водопроводсоз (vodoprovodsoz) (Tajik), tesisatçı (Turkish), водопрові́дник (vodoprovídnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), санте́хнік (santéxnik) [masculine] (Ukrainian), پلمبر (plambar) [masculine] (Urdu), نل کار (nal kār) [masculine] (Urdu), vodoprovodchi (Uzbek), thợ sửa ống nước (Vietnamese), rüdan [feminine, masculine] (Volapük), hirüdan [masculine] (Volapük), jirüdan [feminine] (Volapük), plymer [masculine] (Welsh), אינסטאַלאַטאָר (instalator) [masculine] (Yiddish), רערן־שלאָסער (rern-shloser) [masculine] (Yiddish), סאַנטעכניק (santekhnik) [masculine] (Yiddish)
Disambiguation of 'one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage': 17 32 32 12 7 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈplʌm.ɚ/ [General-American], /pləm(b)ə(r)/ (note: Indic) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-plumber.wav Forms: plumbers [present, singular, third-person], plumbering [participle, present], plumbered [participle, past], plumbered [past]
Etymology: From Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”). The verb sense “to botch” is perhaps from the negative stereotype of the occupation. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|plumber}} Middle English plumber, {{der|en|fro|plummier}} Old French plummier, {{der|en|la|plumbārius}} Latin plumbārius Head templates: {{en-verb}} plumber (third-person singular simple present plumbers, present participle plumbering, simple past and past participle plumbered)
  1. (transitive, US, slang) To botch or ruin. Tags: US, slang, transitive Synonyms: plumber up
    Sense id: en-plumber-en-verb-BmXhV37I Categories (other): American English
  2. (intransitive, informal, rare) To work as a plumber. Tags: informal, intransitive, rare Synonyms: plumb
    Sense id: en-plumber-en-verb-Dvu09-ga
  3. (transitive, informal, rare) To work on (something) as a plumber. Tags: informal, rare, transitive Synonyms: plumber up
    Sense id: en-plumber-en-verb-8Qky0-St
  4. (transitive, slang, rare) To do, work, devise (something). Tags: rare, slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-plumber-en-verb-KwcH4aC~ Categories (other): English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 10 5 7 4 11 15 11 6 7 19 5
  5. (transitive, informal, rare) To equip (something) with plumbing. Tags: informal, rare, transitive Synonyms: plumber up
    Sense id: en-plumber-en-verb-RAF2pcdd Categories (other): Plumbing Disambiguation of Plumbing: 5 5 5 2 2 2 1 23 0 1 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: unplumbered, plumbered [adjective], plumber up

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "medicine"
        ],
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
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          "urologist",
          "urologist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, medicine, somewhat derogatory) A urologist."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈplʌm.ɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Plummer"
    },
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      "ipa": "/pləm(b)ə(r)/",
      "note": "Indic"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "lang_code": "af",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "loodgieter"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "sabbāk",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سَبَّاك"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ajp",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ajp",
      "roman": "mawāserji",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "South-Levantine-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مَواسِرجي"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "lang_code": "eu",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "iturgin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "lang_code": "be",
      "roman": "vadapravódčyk",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вадаправо́дчык"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "lang_code": "be",
      "roman": "vadapravódnik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вадаправо́днік"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "lang_code": "be",
      "roman": "santéxnik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сантэ́хнік"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "vodoprovódčik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "водопрово́дчик"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "lang_code": "my",
      "roman": "repuiksa.ma:",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "ရေပိုက်သမား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "llauner"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lampista"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plomer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "Shuǐguǎngōng",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "水管工"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "guǎnzigōng",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "管子工"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "qiānguǎngōng",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "鉛管工 /铅管工"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "shuǐnuǎngōng",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "水暖工"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "instalatér"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "instalatérka"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "blikkenslager"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "loodgieter"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "tubisto"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "plumbisto"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "lang_code": "et",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "torumees"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "lang_code": "et",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "turulukksepp"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "putkimies"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral"
      ],
      "word": "putkiasentaja"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plombier"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tuyauteur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "homme à pipe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fontaneiro"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "lang_code": "ka",
      "roman": "mec̣q̇alsadene",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "მეწყალსადენე"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Klempner"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Klempnerin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Installateur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Spengler"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "lang_code": "el",
      "roman": "ydravlikós",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "υδραυλικός"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "lang_code": "he",
      "roman": "shravráv",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "שְׁרַבְרַב"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "kaserā",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "कसेरा"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "nalkār",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "नलकार"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "nalsāz",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "नलसाज़"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "plambar",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "प्लंबर"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "vízvezeték-szerelő"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "gázszerelő"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "víz(vezeték)- és gázszerelő"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "víz-gáz szerelő"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pípari"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pluiméir"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "idraulico"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "alt": "はいかんこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "haikankō",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "配管工"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "alt": "えんかんこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "enkankō",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "鉛管工"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "lang_code": "kk",
      "roman": "su qūbyrşy",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "су құбыршы"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "alt": "配管工",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "roman": "baegwan'gong",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "배관공"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "alt": "鉛管工",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "roman": "yeon'gwan'gong",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "연관공"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plumbārius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "lang_code": "lt",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "santechnikas"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "vodovoddžija",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "водоводџија"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "vodoinstaláter",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "водоинстала́тер"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "lang_code": "mt",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "plamer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "kaiaka kōrere"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "kaiaka paipa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "mataaro kōrere"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rørlegger"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "lang_code": "nn",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "røyrleggjar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plombièr"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "lang_code": "fa",
      "roman": "lule-keš",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "لولهکش"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hydraulik"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "encanador"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "canalizador"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tinichigiu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "instalator"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "vodoprovódčik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "водопрово́дчик"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
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      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
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      "word": "rörmokare"
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      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
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      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
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      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "santéxnik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
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      "roman": "plambar",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "پلمبر"
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      "roman": "nal kār",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "uz",
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      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "vodoprovodchi"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "thợ sửa ống nước"
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      "lang": "Volapük",
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      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "rüdan"
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      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "hirüdan"
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      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "jirüdan"
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      "code": "cy",
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      "lang_code": "cy",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plymer"
    },
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      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "instalator",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אינסטאַלאַטאָר"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "rern-shloser",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "רערן־שלאָסער"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 32 32 12 7 1",
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      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "santekhnik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "סאַנטעכניק"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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          "text": "There is nothing to work him into a fine feeling of agony and despair like an exam scheduled for the next day, or a paper to write, or a concert in which he is to sing. Wish him the top of the morning when he is looking forward to one of these events, and then hear the woeful story of how badly he is going to be plumbered.",
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          "ref": "1939 June 16, Edwin Rutt, “Four Blind Dates”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume LXVIII, number 204, Kingston, N.Y.: Freeman Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:",
          "text": "And yet she sent back his letters unopened and crashed down the telephone receiver on him with monotonous regularity. Well, he guessed it was his own fault. He’d plumbered the works beyond repair that first day.",
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          "text": "If it was not east of where I had started out, I had plumbered myself sure enough, because I didn’t have the energy to go back the other way.",
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          "text": "Joe Staudinger plumbered so well that on Saturday night boiling water came from both hot and cold faucets.",
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          "ref": "1995, John Yau, “A Little Memento from the Boys”, in Garrett Hongo, editor, Under Western Eyes: Personal Essays from Asian America, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books/Doubleday, →ISBN, page 323:",
          "text": "Most of us were at the bottom end of the service industry, the ones who plastered or plumbered by day and painted or wrote at night.",
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              98,
              107
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          "ref": "1997, John Oliver Simon, “Fuchsia”, in Danielle La France, editor, Berkeley! A Literary Tribute, Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, →ISBN, pages 219–220:",
          "text": "[S]he cleaned rich people’s houses—did her work and saved her wages, and Clarence carpentered and plumbered[,] hauled stuff in the old red truck and Ernestine drove to work in a new Datsun.",
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          "ref": "1908 September 29, Deetz & Mullen, “Pipes Plumbered by Us”, in The Evening Times, city edition, volume XLIV, number 231, Cumberland, Md., →OCLC, page 7, column 7:",
          "text": "PIPES PLUMBERED BY US stay plumbered till they wear out. No leaky joints or splitting follow our work. How about the pipes on your steam or hot water heater? Don’t they need repacking or perhaps replacing? HAVE US LOOK AT THEM NOW.",
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        {
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              155,
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          "ref": "1962 March 17, Truman Twill, “Mud in Your Eye”, in The Salem News, volume 74, number 66, Salem, Oh.: Brush-Moore Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 6:",
          "text": "Water shows up where no water ever was seen before as the underground water table riseth and runneth over. The surface of the world is a chocolate pudding plumbered by an untutored bride who failed to read the directions.",
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          "ref": "1980, Colin Walsh, “Tales of Future Worlds: The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Staying at Home”, in Colin Walsh’s Grown-Up’s Christmas Annual 1980, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, section 4, page 123:",
          "text": "Except that is for the religious ritual of using the washing machine. (These ancient rites had been captured in the brain implant film known as Crease). The ceremony was so tiring, because of the lack of other muscle titillation, that it left the poor peoploids plum tuckered, so that workbots would have to come in to refold the articles of de-hydrated apparel, and somehow get the tucks plumbered, ready for the next service, usually conducted by a fanatical religious leader known as an Engineer.",
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          "text": "Q. [Mr. Goodman] At the period of time we have spoken of, that strike settled down, did it not, in 1910 and 1911, and there was no strike? A. [Fred C. Schanberger] No. Q. What happened to the Vaudeville Managers’ Co-operative Association’s activities at that time? A. Oh, they kind of plumbered it along and I think I never heard of it so far as I am concerned until this second strike was started.",
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          "ref": "1925 February 7, C[arleton] S[tevens] Montanye, “Swan’s Song”, in The Popular Magazine, volume LXXV, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith Corporation, →OCLC, page 77, column 1:",
          "text": "The other afternoon Silly here pilfered a melody from the classics, threw a little jazz at it and I plumbered some words. I got a copy of them with me now. Grab this while it’s hot, Joe.",
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          "text": "‘My idea!’ Was this bunch of deadwood trying to give him the birdies? ‘Dana—’ / ‘Suppose it was Dana's idea? You are the one that plumbered things.’ / ‘That's right, Duke,’ said Dana, neatly stepping out from under. ‘I merely made a suggestion, You did not have to follow it.’",
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          "ref": "1928 July, Chase Brass & Copper Co., “Alpha Brass Pipe”, in Richardson Wright, editor, House & Garden, volume LIV, number 1, Greenwich, Conn.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 117:",
          "text": "How many times should a bathroom be “plumbered”? IT should be “plumbered” once more if it is an old bathroom of the tin-tub, iron-pipe era. Call in your plumber and have him rip out the old, unsanitary fixtures and the rusting iron or steel pipe and put in modern fixtures connected with good brass pipe that cannot rust. If you are building a new house it should be “plumbered” just once.",
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          "ref": "1943 July, Oliver St. John Gogarty, letter to Martha Gogarty; quoted in J[ohn] B[enignus] Lyons, “There is a Happy Land . . .”, in Oliver St. John Gogarty: The Man of Many Talents: A Biography, Dublin: Blackwater, 1980, →ISBN, part 3, page 250:",
          "text": "The silver grey timbers he turned inside out or rather put the weathered side in, heated and plumbered the place and, with his freezing apparatus can live off his chickens, ducks and garden-produce all the year round.",
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          "ref": "1947, James Branch Cabell, “The Prologue: Quiet Along the Potomac”, in Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Company, →OCLC, section 4, page 11:",
          "text": "For the most part, they let the land go, perforce; so that nowadays their ancestral mansions gleam spickly and spanly after having been purchased, and lavishly plumbered and electrified, by magnates from out of the North.",
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      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Klempner"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Klempnerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Installateur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Spengler"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "lang_code": "el",
      "roman": "ydravlikós",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "υδραυλικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "lang_code": "he",
      "roman": "shravráv",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "שְׁרַבְרַב"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "kaserā",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "कसेरा"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "nalkār",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "नलकार"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "nalsāz",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "नलसाज़"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "plambar",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "प्लंबर"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "vízvezeték-szerelő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "gázszerelő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "víz(vezeték)- és gázszerelő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "víz-gáz szerelő"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pípari"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pluiméir"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "idraulico"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はいかんこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "haikankō",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "配管工"
    },
    {
      "alt": "えんかんこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "enkankō",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "鉛管工"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "lang_code": "kk",
      "roman": "su qūbyrşy",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "су құбыршы"
    },
    {
      "alt": "配管工",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "roman": "baegwan'gong",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "배관공"
    },
    {
      "alt": "鉛管工",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "roman": "yeon'gwan'gong",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "연관공"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plumbārius"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "lang_code": "lt",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "santechnikas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "vodovoddžija",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "водоводџија"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "vodoinstaláter",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "водоинстала́тер"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "lang_code": "mt",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "plamer"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "kaiaka kōrere"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "kaiaka paipa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "mataaro kōrere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rørlegger"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "lang_code": "nn",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "røyrleggjar"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plombièr"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "lang_code": "fa",
      "roman": "lule-keš",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "لولهکش"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hydraulik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "encanador"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "canalizador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tinichigiu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "instalator"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "vodoprovódčik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "водопрово́дчик"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "santéxnik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "санте́хник"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "lang_code": "sk",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "inštalatér"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "lang_code": "sk",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inštalatérka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "lang_code": "sl",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vodoinštalater"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "lang_code": "sl",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vodoinštalaterka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "lang_code": "sl",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vodovodar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "lang_code": "sl",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vodovodarka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "Colombia",
        "Costa-Rica",
        "El-Salvador",
        "Honduras",
        "Mexico",
        "Nicaragua",
        "Spain",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fontanero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "Chile",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gásfiter"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "Ecuador",
        "Peru",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gasfitero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "Argentina",
        "Bolivia",
        "Colombia",
        "Cuba",
        "Dominican-Republic",
        "Ecuador",
        "Guatemala",
        "Panama",
        "Paraguay",
        "Puerto-Rico",
        "Uruguay",
        "Venezuela",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plomero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "Philippines",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tubero"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "lang_code": "sw",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "fundi bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "rörmokare"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "lang_code": "tl",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "tubero"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "lang_code": "tg",
      "roman": "vodoprovodči",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "водопроводчӣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "lang_code": "tg",
      "roman": "vodoprovodsoz",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "водопроводсоз"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "tesisatçı"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "vodoprovídnyk",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "водопрові́дник"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "santéxnik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "санте́хнік"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "lang_code": "ur",
      "roman": "plambar",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "پلمبر"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "lang_code": "ur",
      "roman": "nal kār",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "نل کار"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "lang_code": "uz",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "vodoprovodchi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "word": "thợ sửa ống nước"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "lang_code": "vo",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rüdan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "lang_code": "vo",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hirüdan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "lang_code": "vo",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jirüdan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "lang_code": "cy",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plymer"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "instalator",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אינסטאַלאַטאָר"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "rern-shloser",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "רערן־שלאָסער"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "santekhnik",
      "sense": "one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "סאַנטעכניק"
    }
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  "wikipedia": [
    "Green's Dictionary of Slang"
  ],
  "word": "plumber"
}

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    {
      "word": "unplumbered"
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      "word": "plumber up"
    }
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          "ref": "1930, “Paul Thomas Martin”, in Joseph W. Martin, editor, The Record, Haverford, Pa.: The Class of 1930, Haverford College, →OCLC, page 54:",
          "text": "There is nothing to work him into a fine feeling of agony and despair like an exam scheduled for the next day, or a paper to write, or a concert in which he is to sing. Wish him the top of the morning when he is looking forward to one of these events, and then hear the woeful story of how badly he is going to be plumbered.",
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          "ref": "1939 June 16, Edwin Rutt, “Four Blind Dates”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume LXVIII, number 204, Kingston, N.Y.: Freeman Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:",
          "text": "And yet she sent back his letters unopened and crashed down the telephone receiver on him with monotonous regularity. Well, he guessed it was his own fault. He’d plumbered the works beyond repair that first day.",
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          "ref": "1993, James Dickey, To the White Sea (A Marc Jaffe Book), Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 226:",
          "text": "If it was not east of where I had started out, I had plumbered myself sure enough, because I didn’t have the energy to go back the other way.",
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        "To botch or ruin."
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        "(transitive, US, slang) To botch or ruin."
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          "ref": "1939 November 28, “Nordenotes”, in Sierra Club Yodeler, volume 1, number 19, San Francisco, Calif.: San Francisco Bay Chapter, Sierra Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:",
          "text": "Joe Staudinger plumbered so well that on Saturday night boiling water came from both hot and cold faucets.",
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          "ref": "1995, John Yau, “A Little Memento from the Boys”, in Garrett Hongo, editor, Under Western Eyes: Personal Essays from Asian America, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books/Doubleday, →ISBN, page 323:",
          "text": "Most of us were at the bottom end of the service industry, the ones who plastered or plumbered by day and painted or wrote at night.",
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          "ref": "1997, John Oliver Simon, “Fuchsia”, in Danielle La France, editor, Berkeley! A Literary Tribute, Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, →ISBN, pages 219–220:",
          "text": "[S]he cleaned rich people’s houses—did her work and saved her wages, and Clarence carpentered and plumbered[,] hauled stuff in the old red truck and Ernestine drove to work in a new Datsun.",
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        "(intransitive, informal, rare) To work as a plumber."
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          "ref": "1908 September 29, Deetz & Mullen, “Pipes Plumbered by Us”, in The Evening Times, city edition, volume XLIV, number 231, Cumberland, Md., →OCLC, page 7, column 7:",
          "text": "PIPES PLUMBERED BY US stay plumbered till they wear out. No leaky joints or splitting follow our work. How about the pipes on your steam or hot water heater? Don’t they need repacking or perhaps replacing? HAVE US LOOK AT THEM NOW.",
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          "ref": "1962 March 17, Truman Twill, “Mud in Your Eye”, in The Salem News, volume 74, number 66, Salem, Oh.: Brush-Moore Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 6:",
          "text": "Water shows up where no water ever was seen before as the underground water table riseth and runneth over. The surface of the world is a chocolate pudding plumbered by an untutored bride who failed to read the directions.",
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          "ref": "1980, Colin Walsh, “Tales of Future Worlds: The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Staying at Home”, in Colin Walsh’s Grown-Up’s Christmas Annual 1980, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, section 4, page 123:",
          "text": "Except that is for the religious ritual of using the washing machine. (These ancient rites had been captured in the brain implant film known as Crease). The ceremony was so tiring, because of the lack of other muscle titillation, that it left the poor peoploids plum tuckered, so that workbots would have to come in to refold the articles of de-hydrated apparel, and somehow get the tucks plumbered, ready for the next service, usually conducted by a fanatical religious leader known as an Engineer.",
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          "ref": "1919 October 15, “Federal Investigation”, in Variety, volume LVII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Variety, published 2 January 1920, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52, column 3:",
          "text": "Q. [Mr. Goodman] At the period of time we have spoken of, that strike settled down, did it not, in 1910 and 1911, and there was no strike? A. [Fred C. Schanberger] No. Q. What happened to the Vaudeville Managers’ Co-operative Association’s activities at that time? A. Oh, they kind of plumbered it along and I think I never heard of it so far as I am concerned until this second strike was started.",
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          "ref": "1925 February 7, C[arleton] S[tevens] Montanye, “Swan’s Song”, in The Popular Magazine, volume LXXV, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith Corporation, →OCLC, page 77, column 1:",
          "text": "The other afternoon Silly here pilfered a melody from the classics, threw a little jazz at it and I plumbered some words. I got a copy of them with me now. Grab this while it’s hot, Joe.",
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          "ref": "1931 July 22, “Brother from Mu”, in W. J. Huntingford, editor, The Wainwright Star, volume XXIII, number 43, Wainwright, Alta.: W. J. Huntingford, →OCLC, page 3, column 6:",
          "text": "‘My idea!’ Was this bunch of deadwood trying to give him the birdies? ‘Dana—’ / ‘Suppose it was Dana's idea? You are the one that plumbered things.’ / ‘That's right, Duke,’ said Dana, neatly stepping out from under. ‘I merely made a suggestion, You did not have to follow it.’",
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        "(transitive, slang, rare) To do, work, devise (something)."
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          "ref": "1928 July, Chase Brass & Copper Co., “Alpha Brass Pipe”, in Richardson Wright, editor, House & Garden, volume LIV, number 1, Greenwich, Conn.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 117:",
          "text": "How many times should a bathroom be “plumbered”? IT should be “plumbered” once more if it is an old bathroom of the tin-tub, iron-pipe era. Call in your plumber and have him rip out the old, unsanitary fixtures and the rusting iron or steel pipe and put in modern fixtures connected with good brass pipe that cannot rust. If you are building a new house it should be “plumbered” just once.",
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          "ref": "1943 July, Oliver St. John Gogarty, letter to Martha Gogarty; quoted in J[ohn] B[enignus] Lyons, “There is a Happy Land . . .”, in Oliver St. John Gogarty: The Man of Many Talents: A Biography, Dublin: Blackwater, 1980, →ISBN, part 3, page 250:",
          "text": "The silver grey timbers he turned inside out or rather put the weathered side in, heated and plumbered the place and, with his freezing apparatus can live off his chickens, ducks and garden-produce all the year round.",
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          "ref": "1947, James Branch Cabell, “The Prologue: Quiet Along the Potomac”, in Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Company, →OCLC, section 4, page 11:",
          "text": "For the most part, they let the land go, perforce; so that nowadays their ancestral mansions gleam spickly and spanly after having been purchased, and lavishly plumbered and electrified, by magnates from out of the North.",
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