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"etymology_text": "wack(y) + -o.",
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"Amusingly eccentric or irrational."
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"(informal) Amusingly eccentric or irrational."
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"sense": "amusingly eccentric or irrational",
"word": "durchgeknallt"
},
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"sense": "amusingly eccentric or irrational",
"word": "spinnert"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čudnoj",
"sense": "amusingly eccentric or irrational",
"word": "чудной"
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},
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"ref": "2020 September 15, Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, quoting Rush Limbaugh, “‘Nothing to Do With Climate Change’: Conservative Media and Trump Align on Fires”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"sense": "amusingly eccentric or irrational",
"word": "durchgeknallt"
},
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"sense": "amusingly eccentric or irrational",
"word": "spinnert"
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"sense": "amusingly eccentric or irrational",
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