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"alt": "めぎつね",
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"sense": "female fox",
"word": "牝狐"
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"sense": "female fox",
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"ref": "1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, published 1999, page 54",
"text": "[…] and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a continual dripping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye–a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.",
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"ref": "2002 June 2, WayForward, Shantae, Game Boy Color, level/area: Mimic's Dock",
"text": "(Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'",
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"word": "viltroteira"
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"word": "ანჩხლი"
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"word": "Drachen"
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],
"word": "megera"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chipie"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "garce"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "salope"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rosse"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "morlana"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prea"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "penacha"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelexa"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "viltroteira"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ančxli",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"word": "ანჩხლი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "megera",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"word": "მეგერა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schlampe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Drachen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Zicke"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"word": "kurva"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"word": "szuka"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"word": "fúria"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"word": "hárpia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stronza"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "troia"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "subeta",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"word": "すべた"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kurwa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "suka"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jędza"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "megera"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "súka",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "су́ка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stérva",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сте́рва"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "temperamental woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "galla"
}
],
"word": "vixen"
}
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