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"word": "Präriehund"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"word": "kokeiʻa"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"word": "prérikutya"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "purērī doggu",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"word": "プレーリードッグ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "peureri dogeu",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"word": "프레리 도그"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mameot",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"word": "마멋"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"word": "anjing prairi"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"word": "dlǫ́ǫ́ʼ"
},
{
"code": "paw",
"lang": "Pawnee",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"word": "askuc"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "nieświszczuk"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "piesek preriowy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cão-da-pradaria"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"tags": [
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"word": "cão-dos-prados"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lugovája sobáčka",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лугова́я соба́чка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prerijski pas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perrito de las praderas"
},
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"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"tags": [
"class-7",
"class-8"
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"word": "kijibwanyika"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "burrowing rodent",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "präriehund"
}
],
"word": "prairie dog"
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"etymology_text": "By analogy with how the animal pops its head up from its burrow.",
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"english": "see: medical definition",
"word": "crown"
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"ref": "2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage, published 2018, page 11:",
"text": "People prairie-dog over the tops of their cubicles and call to their co-workers: “Hey, you going for a walk at lunch today?”",
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"text": "2001, Andy Breckman, Rat Race\n[Kimberly needs to go to the bathroom] Dad, I'm prairie dogging it! What the hell does that mean? You know, like when a prairie dog sticks his head in and out of the ground."
},
{
"ref": "2008, Adrien Clautrier with Rowe, Henry and Mack, Lindsay, Dirty French: Everyday Slang from \"What's Up?\" to \"F*%# Off!\", Berkeley: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 54:",
"text": "I'm about to crap my pants.\nJe vais me faire au froc.\nI'm prairie-dogging it.\nJ'ai le cigare au bout des lèvres.\nLiterally, “the cigar is at the edge of my lips”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Brian J. Baker, Yuck! ...That Guy Didn't Wash His Hands!: The Complete Guide to the American Man's Bathroom Experience, American Bathroom Experience, →ISBN, page 150:",
"text": "[…] Postin' Up On the Blaster / Power Dump / Prairie-Dogging it / Press a Loaf Purp […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, David, Jr. Rivera, Harlem's Dragon: The Love You Can't Fight, Largo: Strebo Books, →ISBN, page 162:",
"text": "“Oh, God stop, stop,” Kat said, holding her side, “I'm starting to prairie dog.” […] “You know, prairie dogging,” Kat said, trying to explain between breaths. “When it pokes its head out of the hole and then back in, out and in, out and in.”",
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},
{
"text": "2011, Various, David Mack, James Robinson, Ty Templeton, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, Kurt Busiek, Vampirella Masters Series 4: The Lost Tales\n...They are gonna get a mouthful and a pantful. Crappin their shorts all the way into next week... Yeah those little bastards will be prairie dogging it all the way home!"
}
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"(slang, euphemistic) To struggle to hold back an involuntary bowel movement."
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"word": "prairie-dog"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to pop up as if from a hole",
"word": "ponnahtaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to pop up as if from a hole",
"word": "ponnahdella"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to hold back one's bowel movement",
"word": "pidättää"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to hold back one's bowel movement",
"word": "pidätellä"
}
],
"word": "prairie dog"
}
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