"swallow the dictionary" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swallows the dictionary",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swallowing the dictionary",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swallowed the dictionary",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swallowed the dictionary",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "swallow the dictionary (third-person singular simple present swallows the dictionary, present participle swallowing the dictionary, simple past and past participle swallowed the dictionary)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1918, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 190, page 5",
          "text": "I swear, I don't know where you get all this swallowing the dictionary business!” - He himself never read anything but the ticker and the sporting news.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Adrian Furnham, Managing People in a Downturn",
          "text": "Knowledge is deposited in (virtual and real) libraries. People who “swallow” the dictionary are articulate, eloquent and verbally dextrous. They have a greater store of words. Knowledge is captured in books, which is why the number of books in a household contains an excellent index of the social class of that house.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Doris Lessing, African Stories, page 293",
          "text": "“You swallowed the dictionary?” said Mrs. Black, with an ingratiating smile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ray Simm, Hants Hills To Arctic Tundra, page 103",
          "text": "When I used a couple of words that an Uncle from the Boston States considered beyond my years, he asked me if I had swallowed the dictionary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak using long or obscure words."
      ],
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      "links": [
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        ],
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ],
        [
          "obscure",
          "obscure"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swallow the dictionary"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swallows the dictionary",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swallowing the dictionary",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swallowed the dictionary",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swallowed the dictionary",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "swallow the dictionary (third-person singular simple present swallows the dictionary, present participle swallowing the dictionary, simple past and past participle swallowed the dictionary)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1918, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 190, page 5",
          "text": "I swear, I don't know where you get all this swallowing the dictionary business!” - He himself never read anything but the ticker and the sporting news.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Adrian Furnham, Managing People in a Downturn",
          "text": "Knowledge is deposited in (virtual and real) libraries. People who “swallow” the dictionary are articulate, eloquent and verbally dextrous. They have a greater store of words. Knowledge is captured in books, which is why the number of books in a household contains an excellent index of the social class of that house.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Doris Lessing, African Stories, page 293",
          "text": "“You swallowed the dictionary?” said Mrs. Black, with an ingratiating smile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ray Simm, Hants Hills To Arctic Tundra, page 103",
          "text": "When I used a couple of words that an Uncle from the Boston States considered beyond my years, he asked me if I had swallowed the dictionary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak using long or obscure words."
      ],
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        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
        ],
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ],
        [
          "obscure",
          "obscure"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swallow the dictionary"
}