See weeaboo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "वीआबू"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"by-personal-gender",
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "otaku"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"by-personal-gender",
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "otaku"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "wibu"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"4chan",
"Nicholas Gurewitch",
"Perry Bible Fellowship"
],
"word": "weeaboo"
}
Download raw JSONL data for weeaboo meaning in English (7.2kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": yùzháizú vs. sǐzhái",
"path": [
"weeaboo"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "weeaboo",
"trace": ""
}
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