See rah in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "MORDEKAISER MENTIONED RAAHHHH ❗❗❗❗❗❗🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 WTF IS MOBILITY",
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"Multicultural London English",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɑː",
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"1": "en",
"2": "hurrah"
},
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"name": "clipping"
}
],
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"form": "more rah",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most rah",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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"English informal terms",
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{
"ref": "2022 January 9, Douglas Murray, “Boris Johnson has utterly failed to back up his anti-woke rhetoric with action”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-25:",
"text": "The June 2020 protest at which the Bristol slave-trader and philanthropist's statue was brought down was a BLM protest. But none of the defendants were black. Rather, as you can tell from their names (including Milo Ponsford and Sage Willoughby) they were almost comically typical of a certain rah, right-on Bristol type.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Posh."
],
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[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"Posh",
"posh#Adjective"
]
],
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"(UK, informal, derogatory) Posh."
],
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"informal"
]
}
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"ipa": "/ɹɑː/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː"
}
],
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{
"word": "ra"
},
{
"word": "rahh"
},
{
"word": "raa"
},
{
"word": "raah"
}
],
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}
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},
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}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-interj"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "MLE"
},
"expansion": "(MLE)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
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{
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2019 June 6, Skepta, quoted in “Skepta opens up about becoming a father and enduring two heartbreaking miscarriages” by Narjas Zatat, Metro",
"text": "He’s like, “Shut up, man. Whatever man. Skip, man, was a shot.” And I’m like, “Rah, this is a bit of a weird reaction?”"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An expression of surprise."
],
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[
"surprise",
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]
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2016, Wiley, quoted in This Is Grime by Hattie Collins and Olivia Rose, Hachette UK, page 145",
"text": "Target bought the tape round, I listened to it and I was like, ‘Rah, this is sick, this kid is so sick’."
}
],
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"An expression of admiration."
],
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[
"admiration",
"admiration#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2016, Big Narstie (lyrics), “Fire In The Booth (Part 3)”, performed by Big Narstie on BBC Radio 1Xtra",
"text": "I was daydreaming, smoking weed out the curtain / Looking at my baby like rah, I'm just a burden"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An expression of frustration or anger."
],
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"frustration",
"frustration#English"
],
[
"anger",
"anger#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English"
]
}
],
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},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː"
}
],
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{
"word": "wow"
},
{
"word": "ra"
},
{
"word": "rahh"
},
{
"word": "raa"
},
{
"word": "raah"
}
],
"word": "rah"
}
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