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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
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"word": "pastone"
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
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"plural"
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"text": "This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.",
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{
"ref": "2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer",
"text": "They have helped foster a corrosive, mean-spirited, angry and divisive atmosphere that May and her lieutenants are too weak to challenge. Into this swill comes Leave financier-in-chief, Arron Banks, who last week announced he was setting up a “Patriotic Alliance” to attempt to unseat 100 Remain-supporting MPs.",
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"lang": "Finnish",
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"word": "großer Schluck"
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{
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"word": "ingurgitata"
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]
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"word": "kaning-baboy"
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"code": "war",
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"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"word": "kuravesi"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
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"code": "de",
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{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
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"neuter"
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"word": "ξέπλυμα"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pomija",
"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "помија"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"word": "помои"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"word": "aguachirle"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"word": "roska"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"word": "moska"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schund"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "ξέπλυμα"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"word": "mosogatólé"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sbobba"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "intruglio"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "brodaglia"
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{
"code": "it",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "sciacquatura"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow",
"word": "hörppy"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow",
"word": "kulaus"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"masculine"
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"code": "de",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ro",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "inexpensive beer or alcohol",
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"text": "1944, Rutherford George Montgomery (as Al Avery), A Yankee Flier in Italy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 1, p. 9,\nO’Malley answered calmly as he shoved half of the pie into his mouth.\n“Stop! Stop—swilling that pie!” the colonel roared."
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"ref": "1958, Muriel Spark, chapter 6, in Robinson, New York: New Directions, published 2003, page 69",
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"ref": "1906, Perceval Gibbon, “The Coward”, in Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases, New York: McClure, Phillips, pages 222–223",
"text": "[…] before them, between the high banks of the Vaal, they saw only a world of brown water, streaked with white froth, hurling down upon them. It rose above the foot-board and swilled to the level of the seat.",
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"ref": "1959, Ezra Pound, “Canto 96”, in The Cantos of Ezra Pound, New York: New Directions, published 1986, page 654",
"text": "A flood of fads swilled over all Europe.",
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},
{
"text": "2000, Hanif Kureishi, “Goodbye, Mother” in Granta 69, Spring 2000, p. 119,\nThe smell, the internal workings of every human being, the shit, blood, mucus swilling in a bag of flesh, made him mad. He felt he was wearing the glasses the stage hypnotist had given people, but instead of seeing them naked, he saw their inner physiology, their turbulence, their death."
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"ref": "1858 July 17, “A Primary Election at Peter Cooper’s Funny Little Grocery-Groggery”, in Stephen H. Branch’s Alligator, volume I, number 13, page 2",
"text": "Have I not kept open house for three days and nights, and swilled yourself and comrades with liquor for a week, and haven’t you all been drunk at my expense for several days?",
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"To inebriate; to fill with drink."
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"ref": "1921, Nephi Anderson, chapter 8, in Dorian, Salt Lake City, page 84",
"text": "Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?",
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