"spect" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "expect"
      },
      "expansion": "expect",
      "name": "l"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "aphetic form of expect",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spects",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "specting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spected",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spected",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spect (third-person singular simple present spects, present participle specting, simple past and past participle spected)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple's Flyaway",
          "text": "\"I's growing so big now, mamma,\" said she, coaxingly, \"don't you spect I must have some tea?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories",
          "text": "Looks like rain, Elder; I 'spect she'll have to go over with me arter all,\" said George Thayer, the handsomest, best-natured stage-driver in the whole State of New Hampshire.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Various, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921",
          "text": "We didn' 'spect Marse Wes to bring home a wife whenas he lef', but that ain' no sign that it ain' a mighty fine thing.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, “Comin' Home Baby”, in Comin' Home Baby!, performed by Mel Tormé",
          "text": "I'm comin' home, I know I'm overdue\nSpect me any day now real soon",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 September 6, Richard Meltzer, “Autumn Rhythm”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "With global warming, you may need sweat towels more than you currently 'spect.",
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        }
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) expect"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "etymologically unrelated",
          "word": "spect-actor"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "'spect"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛkt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spect"
}

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "expect"
      },
      "expansion": "expect",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "aphetic form of expect",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spects",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "specting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spected",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spected",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "etymologically unrelated",
      "word": "spect-actor"
    }
  ],
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        "Rhymes:English/ɛkt/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple's Flyaway",
          "text": "\"I's growing so big now, mamma,\" said she, coaxingly, \"don't you spect I must have some tea?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories",
          "text": "Looks like rain, Elder; I 'spect she'll have to go over with me arter all,\" said George Thayer, the handsomest, best-natured stage-driver in the whole State of New Hampshire.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Various, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921",
          "text": "We didn' 'spect Marse Wes to bring home a wife whenas he lef', but that ain' no sign that it ain' a mighty fine thing.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, “Comin' Home Baby”, in Comin' Home Baby!, performed by Mel Tormé",
          "text": "I'm comin' home, I know I'm overdue\nSpect me any day now real soon",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 September 6, Richard Meltzer, “Autumn Rhythm”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "With global warming, you may need sweat towels more than you currently 'spect.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "expect"
      ],
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        [
          "expect",
          "expect"
        ]
      ],
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        "(colloquial) expect"
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛkt"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "'spect"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spect"
}