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"sense": "pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person",
"word": "bugris"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "person of rural heritage; a yokel",
"tags": [
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"word": "wieśniak"
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"sense": "person of rural heritage; a yokel",
"word": "деревенщина"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"masculine"
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"word": "наивник"
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"word": "simpele ziel"
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