See trill in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "rapid alternation of notes",
"word": "pakatal"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "rapid alternation of notes",
"word": "kiyebro"
},
{
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "rapid alternation of notes",
"word": "láy rền"
},
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"roman": "tʻrtʻṙun",
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"word": "թրթռուն"
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},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "vibrating consonant",
"word": "顫音"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "chànyīn",
"sense": "vibrating consonant",
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{
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{
"code": "fi",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
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},
{
"code": "fr",
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{
"code": "de",
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{
"code": "el",
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},
{
"code": "he",
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"word": "עיצורים מורעדים"
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{
"code": "ga",
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},
{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"alt": "ふるえおん",
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "vibrating consonant",
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"alt": "せんどうおん",
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"code": "ko",
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"code": "pl",
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{
"code": "pt",
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{
"code": "ro",
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"feminine"
],
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},
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],
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{
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"(intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver."
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"text": "The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.",
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"(transitive) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill."
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"sense": "to make a tremulous sound",
"word": "wanawana"
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "whakahoho"
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"text": "I come now from seeing of a shepheard at Medoc[…]who had no signe at all of genitorie parts: But where they should be, are three little holes, by which his water doth continually tril from him.",
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"ref": "c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:",
"text": "And now and then an ample tear trilled down / Her delicate cheek.",
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"text": "Whisper'd sounds / Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.",
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To trickle."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To twirl."
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"ref": "2007, “Black History Month”, in The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, performed by Saul Williams:",
"text": "All my trill niggas know who be bringin da funk / Lees and shell toes like it's Black History Month",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2013, Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar Games, level/area: Repossession:",
"text": "LAMAR: Oh, really? That's a nice change from fools comin' up on us. / FRANKLIN: That's trill, homie. / LAMAR: You damn straight that's trill, partner, but it's a shame I don't believe it. You wanna drop some notes on that shit, I'll give you the odds, homie.",
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"ref": "2013, “Wild for the Night”, performed by A$AP Rocky:",
"text": "Middle finger to the critics, me and my nigga Skrillex / You know we finna kill it, A$AP we the trillest",
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}
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"True, respected."
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"(slang, hip-hop culture) True, respected."
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