See po in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
{
"word": "siew dai"
},
{
"word": "Hine-nui-te-po"
},
{
"word": "jan ken po"
},
{
"word": "kung po"
},
{
"word": "Ning-po"
},
{
"word": "po-mo"
},
{
"word": "po po"
},
{
"word": "Tzu-po"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"Singapore English"
],
"glosses": [
"Thinner; with more water added to dilute it."
],
"links": [
[
"kopi",
"kopi#Malay"
],
[
"teh",
"teh#Malay"
],
[
"Thinner",
"thinner#English"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"dilute",
"dilute"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Singapore, colloquial, used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)) Thinner; with more water added to dilute it."
],
"raw_tags": [
"used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)"
],
"tags": [
"Singapore",
"colloquial",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[p˭o]",
"tags": [
"Singapore"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pəʊ/"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-po.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2e/En-au-po.ogg/En-au-po.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/En-au-po.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
}
],
"word": "po"
}
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"called_from": "form_description/20250107",
"msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
"path": [
"po"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "po",
"trace": ""
}
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