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"text": "Winners never quit and quitters never win."
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"expansion": "quiture (“burn mark, burning”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "cuire",
"3": "",
"4": "to cook"
},
"expansion": "cuire (“to cook”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "coctura",
"4": "",
"5": "cooking"
},
"expansion": "Latin coctura (“cooking”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "quitters",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "quittering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "quittered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "quittered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To suppurate; ooze with pus."
],
"links": [
[
"suppurate",
"suppurate"
],
[
"ooze",
"ooze"
],
[
"pus",
"pus"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkwɪ.tə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪtə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "quittor"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-quitter.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/71/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-quitter.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-quitter.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "obsolete except farriery",
"word": "quittor"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "quitture"
}
],
"word": "quitter"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"Rhymes:English/ɪtə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɪtə(ɹ)/2 syllables"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "rage quitter"
},
{
"word": "spitters are quitters"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "quit",
"3": "er",
"id2": "agent noun"
},
"expansion": "quit + -er",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From quit + -er.",
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{
"form": "quitters",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "quitter (plural quitters)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with collocations",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Winners never quit and quitters never win."
},
{
"text": "Don't be a quitter — hang in there!"
},
{
"ref": "1974 August 8, Richard Nixon, 2:00 from the start, in Richard Nixon's resignation speech, CBSN",
"text": "I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Peter Mandelson, 4:14 from the start, in 2001 victory speech, ITV",
"text": "Well, they underestimated Hartlepool, and they underestimated me because I am a fighter and not a quitter!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who quits, as:",
"One who gives in."
],
"links": [
[
"quit",
"quit"
],
[
"gives in",
"give in"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:one who quits",
"en:one who gives in"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "giver-upper"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: never-smoker"
},
{
"text": "Quitters are winners! If you can't quit on the first try, hang in there and try to quit again!",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who quits, as:",
"One who succeeds in desisting from a vice, especially smoking, drinking, or drugging."
],
"links": [
[
"quit",
"quit"
],
[
"succeed",
"succeed"
],
[
"desisting",
"desist#Verb"
],
[
"vice",
"vice"
],
[
"smoking",
"smoking"
],
[
"drinking",
"drinking"
],
[
"drugging",
"drugging"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:one who quits",
"en:one who breaks a habit"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A leaver."
],
"links": [
[
"leaver",
"leaver#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) A leaver."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A deliverer."
],
"links": [
[
"deliverer",
"deliverer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A deliverer."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkwɪ.tə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪtə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "quittor"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-quitter.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/71/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-quitter.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-quitter.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "krǎškač",
"sense": "one who quits",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кръшкач"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who quits",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Aufgeber"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who quits",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Feigling"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who quits",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schlappschwanz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "fickle",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one who quits",
"word": "állhatatlan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one who quits",
"word": "ingatag"
}
],
"word": "quitter"
}
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