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"Rhymes:English/ʌtə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
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{
"sense": "one who puts or places",
"word": "putter-on"
},
{
"sense": "one who puts or places",
"word": "putter up"
},
{
"sense": "one who puts or places",
"word": "shot-putter"
}
],
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{
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"text": "Coordinate term: puttee"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39",
"text": "He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Events of Putting and Taking: A Crosslinguistic Perspective, page 55",
"text": "[…] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who puts or places."
],
"links": [
[
"One",
"one#pronoun"
],
[
"puts",
"put#Verb"
],
[
"places",
"place#Verb"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A shot-putter."
],
"links": [
[
"shot-putter",
"shot-putter"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Mining"
],
"glosses": [
"One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter."
],
"links": [
[
"mining",
"mining#Noun"
],
[
"pushes",
"push#Verb"
],
[
"wagon",
"wagon"
],
[
"coal mine",
"coal mine"
],
[
"getter",
"getter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter."
],
"topics": [
"business",
"mining"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpʊtə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpʊtɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ɾɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊtə(ɹ)"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "po͝ot'ə(r)"
}
],
"word": "putter"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
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"en:People",
"en:Sounds"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Schenectady putter"
}
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "putt",
"3": "-er",
"id2": "agent noun"
},
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"name": "suf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From putt + -er.",
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{
"form": "putters",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"en:Golf"
],
"glosses": [
"A golf club specifically intended for a putt."
],
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[
"golf",
"golf"
],
[
"golf club",
"golf club"
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"putt",
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]
],
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"(golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt."
],
"senseid": [
"en:golf club"
],
"topics": [
"golf",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Golf"
],
"glosses": [
"A person who is taking a putt or putting."
],
"links": [
[
"golf",
"golf"
],
[
"putting",
"putt#Verb"
]
],
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"(golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting."
],
"topics": [
"golf",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpʌtɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ɾɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌtə(ɹ)"
},
{
"enpr": "pŭt'ə(r)"
}
],
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "type of golf club",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "putter"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "type of golf club",
"word": "putteri"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "type of golf club",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Putter"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "type of golf club",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pútter"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "type of golf club",
"word": "haupatu tīpao"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "type of golf club",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "putter"
}
],
"word": "putter"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English heteronyms",
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"en:Sounds"
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"args": {
"1": "onomatopoeia",
"2": "Onomatopoeic"
},
"expansion": "Onomatopoeic",
"name": "glossary"
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],
"etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "putters",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "puttering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "puttered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "puttered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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{
"args": {},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"put‧ter"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Pat Kelleher, “‘Some Corner of a Foreign Field …’”, in Black Hand Gang (No Man’s World), Osney Mead, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Abaddon Books",
"text": "By the time the engine had puttered and died Atkins and some of the others were out of the trenches and walking towards this new wonder machine.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010 June 14, Dan Newton, The Wildcat, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse",
"text": "Timmy's dad drove an old blue truck that puttered and sputtered to get to the top of the mountain, that led to the valley, where … the WILDCAT waited.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017 March, Jennifer S. Holland, “For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 2017-05-03",
"text": "As I reluctantly left Tangkoko for the last time, bumping along the trail on a motorbike, Raoul, the alpha male who had smacked my leg, wandered out from among the trees. He was alone, and after I puttered by, I glanced back to see him swagger into the middle of the path to watch me go.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "My boyfriend, the cello owner, makes little noises while he putters around, which distracts me from reading my 20,000-word long-form articles about Iraq. So I noise-cancel him too.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating."
],
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[
"intermittent",
"intermittent"
],
[
"bursts",
"burst#Noun"
],
[
"sound",
"sound#Noun"
],
[
"operating",
"operate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpʌtɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ɾɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌtə(ɹ)"
},
{
"enpr": "pŭt'ə(r)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "taraxtetʹ",
"sense": "to produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating",
"word": "тарахтеть"
}
],
"word": "putter"
}
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