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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
"word": "zigue-zaguear"
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"word": "เลื้อย"
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"word": "valua"
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
"word": "rutschen"
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"sense": "to move smoothly from side to side",
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"ref": "2003, J. Flash, An American Savage",
"text": "I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.",
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