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"ref": "2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-07",
"text": "You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel ([Paul] Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly ([Amy] Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.",
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"text": "she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.",
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"t": "to charm; enchant"
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"expansion": "Middle High German begalen (“to charm; enchant”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gale",
"t": "to sing; charm"
},
"expansion": "English gale (“to sing; charm”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gala"
},
"expansion": "English gala",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French régaler (“to entertain, feast”), from Old French regale, rigale, from gale (“merriment”), probably of Germanic origin (see Old French galer). Influenced by Old French se rigoler (“amuse oneself, rejoice”), of unknown origin. Compare Middle High German begalen (“to charm; enchant”), English gale (“to sing; charm”). Compare also English gala.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "regales",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "regaling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "regaled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "regaled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "regale (third-person singular simple present regales, present participle regaling, simple past and past participle regaled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-07",
"text": "You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel ([Paul] Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly ([Amy] Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To please or entertain (someone)."
],
"links": [
[
"please",
"please"
],
[
"entertain",
"entertain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To please or entertain (someone)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink."
],
"links": [
[
"hospitality",
"hospitality"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V",
"text": "she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To feast (on, with something)."
],
"links": [
[
"feast",
"feast"
],
[
"on",
"on#English"
],
[
"with",
"with#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, intransitive) To feast (on, with something)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh."
],
"links": [
[
"gratify",
"gratify"
],
[
"refresh",
"refresh"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative, transitive) To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɹɪˈɡeɪl/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ɹəˈɡeɪl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪl"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-regale.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e2/En-us-regale.ogg/En-us-regale.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/En-us-regale.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-regale.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7e/En-au-regale.ogg/En-au-regale.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/En-au-regale.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zabavljavam",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "забавлявам"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "régaler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "ergötzen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "dilettare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "whakangahau"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "whakaharakoa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "whakarekareka"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "veselítʹ",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "весели́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razvlekátʹ",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "развлека́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "regalar"
},
{
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "filipsescu"
},
{
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "uspitedz"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ugoštavam",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "угощавам"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "onthalen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "régaler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "festlich bewirten"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "taurima"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "ospăta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ugoščátʹ",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "угоща́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pótčevatʹ",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "по́тчевать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "regalar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "välfägna"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "ağarlamak"
}
],
"word": "regale"
}
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