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[
"mortar",
"mortar"
],
[
"darby",
"darby"
]
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "2009, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat, page 225",
"text": "There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A brush for grooming a cat or other pet and removing loose fur."
],
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[
"brush",
"brush"
],
[
"groom",
"groom"
],
[
"cat",
"cat"
],
[
"pet",
"pet"
],
[
"loose",
"loose"
],
[
"fur",
"fur"
]
],
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{
"word": "slicker brush"
}
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈslɪkɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈslɪkə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪkə(ɹ)"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-slicker.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/16/En-au-slicker.ogg/En-au-slicker.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/En-au-slicker.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
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{
"sense": "waterproof coat or jacket",
"word": "poncho"
}
],
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{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "waterproof coat or jacket",
"word": "reënjas"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "waterproof coat or jacket",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Regenjacke"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "waterproof coat or jacket",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Regenmantel"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "swindler or conman",
"word": "blinkjan"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "swindler or conman",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hochstapler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "swindler or conman",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schwindler"
}
],
"word": "slicker"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -er",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"en:Agriculture",
"en:Clothing",
"en:Leatherworking",
"en:Masonry",
"en:Tools"
],
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"2": "slick",
"3": "er",
"t1": "to smooth or make slick"
},
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"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) + -er.",
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{
"form": "slickers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slickering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slickered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
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"tags": [
"past"
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}
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}
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "city slicker"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1883, Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society",
"text": "My good lady wife invited many and often her friends to a dish of cauliflower cooked as it ought to be and finely seasoned, and you ought to see how they slickered their tongues; it looked like appetite all over their faces.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Quinn Higgins, The Waiting Room, page 41",
"text": "I carefully watched his quick emotions as they slickered in his eyes before he hid them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals",
"text": "That's me, a holy greased pig, slickering away out of the fumbling hands of evil.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To slither, as on a slick surface."
],
"links": [
[
"slither",
"slither"
],
[
"slick",
"slick"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1976, Forrest Carter, Rennard Strickland, The Education of Little Tree, →ISBN, page It was at the crossroads store where I got slickered out of my fifty cents.:",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1979, John Greenway, Susan Perl, Tales from the United States, page 9",
"text": "I knew he had been slickered again.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To con or hoodwink."
],
"links": [
[
"con",
"con"
],
[
"hoodwink",
"hoodwink"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1911, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade marks, Volume 38",
"text": "...carbon bisulphide, chloride of sulphur and sulphur precipitating substances, the surplus rubber adhering to the hide being then slickered off and finished with a cloth dipped in a rubber solvent.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1962, Central Leather Research Institute (India), Leather Science - Volume 9, page 209",
"text": "The bends are rinsed well and slickered on both the sides to remove excess of water.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use a slicker on."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008, Preston Wilson, Tales of Finnigan LeBlanc, Prince of Mushrat, page 42",
"text": "Anyway, to make a long story short, here was this young kin of mine dressed in a white shirt and shoes and pale blue shorts standin' there with his hair slickered down, starin' at me.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To smooth or slick."
],
"links": [
[
"smooth",
"smooth"
],
[
"slick",
"slick"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization."
],
"links": [
[
"spread",
"spread"
],
[
"mashed",
"mashed"
],
[
"manure",
"manure"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈslɪkɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈslɪkə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪkə(ɹ)"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-slicker.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/16/En-au-slicker.ogg/En-au-slicker.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/En-au-slicker.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "slicker"
}
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