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"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
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"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
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"word": "Sprühstoß"
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"word": "Hub"
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"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
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"word": "soffio"
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"word": "refolo"
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"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
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"word": "spiffero"
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"word": "boccata"
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"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
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"ref": "1674, Thomas Flatman, Poems and Songs",
"text": "to every puff of wind a slave",
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{
"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 184",
"text": "\"The wind we had was only an early puff! You'll see we shall have our full allowance!\"",
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"ref": "1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1969-1972”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 572",
"text": "When I went to bed that night I found that I could not get to sleep. At five o'clock I got up and took a hot bath. I climbed back into bed and lighted one of the Chinese-made \"Great Wall\" cigars my hosts had thoughtfully provided, and sat puffing on the cigar and making notes about the events of the momentous week.",
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"roman": "dǎrpane",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "дърпане"
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"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
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"neuter"
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"word": "potáhnutí"
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"word": "tirata"
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"ref": "1690, Robert Boyle, The Christian Virtuoso",
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"ref": "1674, Thomas Flatman, Poems and Songs",
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"ref": "1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1969-1972”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 572",
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"ref": "1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major",
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"ref": "1931, Bernard Shaw, Our Theatre in the Nineties, volume 24, page 246",
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"ref": "1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, London: Edward Blount, page 47",
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"ref": "1842, “A Paper on Puffing”, in Ainsworth's Magazine",
"text": "Is nothing to be said in praise of the \"Emporiums\" and \"Repositories\" and \"Divans,\" which formerly were mere insignificant tailors', toymen's, and tobacconists' shops? Is the transition from the barber's pole to the revolving bust of the perruquier, nothing? — the leap from the bare counter-traversed shop to the carpeted and mirrored saloon of trade, nothing? Are they not, one and all, practical puffs, intended to invest commerce with elegance, and to throw a halo round extravagance?",
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"ref": "1848, Mrs. White, “Puffs and Puffing”, in Sharpe's London Magazine",
"text": "Here the duke is made the vehicle of the tailor's advertisement, and the prelusive compliments, ostensibly meant for his grace, merge into a covert recommendation of the coat. Several specimens might be given of this species of puff, which is to be met with in almost every paper, and is a favourite form with booksellers, professional men, &c.",
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"ref": "2008, David Paton-Williamspage, Katterfelto, page xii",
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"ref": "1938, P. G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters",
"text": "Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?",
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"(slang, dated, UK) Life."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "puhtene",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "пухтене"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"word": "pufo"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"word": "puhallus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"word": "puhahdus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "souffle"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hauch"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"word": "φυσηξιά"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fýsima",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"word": "φύσημα"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "phūṅk",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "फूंक"
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{
"code": "hi",
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"roman": "dam",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "hi",
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"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "कश"
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{
"code": "it",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sbuffo"
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"code": "ckb",
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"code": "oc",
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{
"code": "fa",
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"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
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{
"code": "fa",
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"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"common-gender"
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fr",
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{
"code": "de",
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],
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "hi",
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"roman": "phūṅk",
"sense": "ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
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"sense": "ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself",
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{
"code": "hi",
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"sense": "ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself",
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiato"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself",
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],
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"tags": [
"feminine",
"informal"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"code": "cs",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"word": "haiku"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"word": "vire"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"word": "tuprahdus"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sprühstoß"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hub"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"word": "kepulan"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "soffio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sbuffo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "refolo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spiffero"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boccata"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"word": "pūrekereke"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baforada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bocanada"
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{
"code": "su",
"lang": "Sundanese",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"word": "peledug"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small quantity of gas or smoke in the air",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "puff"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dǎrpane",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "дърпане"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "potáhnutí"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "šluk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "pof"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "shoetoe"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "savut"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bouffée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "taffe"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"slang"
],
"word": "latte"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zug"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "roufixiá",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"word": "ρουφηξιά"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tzoúra",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "τζούρα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boccata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tirata"
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{
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "pok",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"word": "پک"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pitada"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "затя́жка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "calada"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bloss"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"common-gender"
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{
"code": "tl",
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"code": "nl",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "slang: cannabis",
"word": "hasa"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "slang: cannabis",
"word": "pilvi"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "slang: cannabis",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "herba"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "slang: cannabis",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gras"
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{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "slang: cannabis",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "μπάφος"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "slang: cannabis",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spinello"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "slang: cannabis",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "erva"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "slang: cannabis",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maconha"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"tags": [
"feminine",
"slang"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "ekler",
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{
"code": "yue",
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"code": "cmn",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "type of cake",
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{
"code": "de",
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"masculine"
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"code": "grc",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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{
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"code": "ja",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
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"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "profitrolʹ",
"sense": "type of cake",
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"masculine"
],
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"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53",
"text": "Still on the down line, the engine puffed away to the South, and in a few moments had disappeared in the darkness!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To pant."
],
"links": [
[
"pant",
"pant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To pant."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To advertise."
],
"links": [
[
"advertise",
"advertise"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, archaic) To advertise."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To blow as an expression of scorn."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1690, Robert Boyle, The Christian Virtuoso",
"text": "'tis easy for a man to have a great opinion of his own knowledge , and be puff'd up by it",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1633, George Herbert, The Quip",
"text": "Then came brave Glory puffing by.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To drive with a puff, or with puffs."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1685, John Dryden, The Twenty-Ninth Ode of the First Book of Horace",
"text": "I puff the prostitute away.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a bladder puffed with air",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides Translated into English",
"text": "puffed up with military success",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up."
],
"senseid": [
"en:flatter"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pʌf/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌf"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-puff.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2e/En-au-puff.ogg/En-au-puff.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/En-au-puff.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "phulüa",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "ফুলোৱা"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "puša",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "пуша"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dimja",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "димя"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "pufi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "tupruttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "tupruta"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "puffen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "verpuffen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "paffen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "blasen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "pusten"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "agkomacháo",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "αγκομαχάω"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "phū̃knā",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "फूँकना"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "pöfékel"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "uscire a sbuffi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "sbuffare"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "pif kirdin",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "پف کردن"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "anhēlō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs",
"word": "puhipuhi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to advertise",
"word": "puffata"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to advertise",
"word": "werben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to advertise",
"word": "anpreisen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to advertise",
"word": "decantare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to advertise",
"word": "incensare"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"puff"
],
"word": "puff"
}
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