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"2": "jam",
"3": "pree"
},
"expansion": "Jamaican Creole pree",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Jamaican Creole pree.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "prees",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "preeing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "preed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "preed",
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}
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
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"name": "Caribbean English",
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"source": "w"
},
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"parents": [
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{
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{
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017 March 24, Fredo (lyrics and music), “London City” (track 3), in Get Rich Or Get Recalled",
"text": "We do our own ting, I don't even pree dem",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 March 5, Tay Floss (lyrics and music), “Leave Em”",
"roman": "I call the duppy, that nigga gon leave em",
"text": "Niggas be preeing",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, “On Me”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon ft. Manga Saint Hilare",
"text": "And the fans, they watch me on phones / So everybody’s preeing, that’s how the ting goes",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 June 16, Stay Flee Get Lizzy Feat Clavish (lyrics and music), “Lately”, 2:03",
"text": "Lately, I don't want the fame, but I pree'd it,\nI'm famous",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"to heed, to take notice of or pay attention to"
],
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],
[
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"take notice"
],
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"pay attention"
]
],
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"(MLE, MTE, Caribbean and their expatriates) to heed, to take notice of or pay attention to"
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[pɹiː]"
}
],
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"2": "jam",
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},
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "preeing",
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"participle",
"present"
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{
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"participle",
"past"
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},
{
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"args": {},
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"pos": "verb",
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{
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"English lemmas",
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"English terms with quotations",
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"Multicultural Toronto English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017 March 24, Fredo (lyrics and music), “London City” (track 3), in Get Rich Or Get Recalled",
"text": "We do our own ting, I don't even pree dem",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 March 5, Tay Floss (lyrics and music), “Leave Em”",
"roman": "I call the duppy, that nigga gon leave em",
"text": "Niggas be preeing",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, “On Me”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon ft. Manga Saint Hilare",
"text": "And the fans, they watch me on phones / So everybody’s preeing, that’s how the ting goes",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 June 16, Stay Flee Get Lizzy Feat Clavish (lyrics and music), “Lately”, 2:03",
"text": "Lately, I don't want the fame, but I pree'd it,\nI'm famous",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"to heed, to take notice of or pay attention to"
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"take notice"
],
[
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],
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]
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}
],
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"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: MLE, MTE, Caribbean and their expatriates",
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"subsection": "verb",
"title": "pree",
"trace": ""
}
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"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: MLE, MTE, Caribbean and their expatriates",
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