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"sense": "dog breed",
"word": "łééchąąʼí bijaashtélí"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bâsset"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spaniel"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "spanielka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spaniel"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spanijélʹ",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спание́ль"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cù-eunaich"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "španiel"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "španjel"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perro de aguas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "spaniel"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "dog breed",
"word": "สเปเนียล"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "dog breed",
"word": "spanyel"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sbaengi"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "dog breed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "adargi"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"spaniel"
],
"word": "spaniel"
}
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "espaigneul"
},
"expansion": "Old French espaigneul",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "épagneul"
},
"expansion": "épagneul",
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{
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"4": "",
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"name": "der"
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{
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"3": "",
"4": "Spain"
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{
"form": "spaniels",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spanielling",
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"participle",
"present"
]
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{
"form": "spanieling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spanielled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spanieled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spanieled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [
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{
"text": "J. Sedgewick (1840) Timon, but not of Athens, page 200: “Always spanielling at the heels of power, the mitred Dignitaries displayed, from first to last, the most rancorous hostility against her.”"
},
{
"text": "David S. Bell (2000) Presidential Power in Fifth Republic France, →ISBN, page 30: “Hence Duverger's famous question about de Gaulle's first spanielling Prime Minister makes political ('M. Debré, existe-t-il?'), but not constitutional sense.”"
},
{
"ref": "Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (2003) The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, page 65",
"text": "The genre which differed from the world in order to advocate a better one - or the genre which spanielled at heel the sensationalist virtual reality world we will now arguably inhabit till the planet dies - had become by 2000, in triumpth or defeat or both, an institution for the telling of story."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To follow loyally or obsequiously, like a spaniel."
],
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"loyally"
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}
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"ipa": "/ˈspænjəl/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈspænəl/",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ænjəl"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"spaniel"
],
"word": "spaniel"
}
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