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"ref": "2000, Sexy Beast (motion picture), spoken by Don Logan (Ben Kingsley):",
"text": "Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like a fat blob laughing at me, you think I'm gonna have that? You really think I'm gonna have that, ya ponce.",
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"Synonym of poof: an effeminate gay man; any similarly effeminate man."
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{
"word": "girlyman"
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"ref": "1992, Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide:",
"text": "The interior was warm and dim, cluttered with flying brass pigs and poncing felt mannequins.",
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"ref": "1973, Mercedes Vidrine, Louisiana Lagniappe, Claitor's Law Books and Publishing, →ISBN, page 23:",
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"ref": "2016, George Graham, Acadiana Table: Cajun and Creole Home Cooking from the Heart of Louisiana, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 258:",
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