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"word": "fox whelp"
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"alt": "foxling",
"word": "fox's whelp"
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"word": "whelping ice"
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"word": "whelpling"
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"word": "wolf whelp"
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"A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub."
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"pinniped"
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[
"dog",
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[
"wolf",
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],
[
"bear",
"bear"
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[
"mammal",
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[
"lion",
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[
"tiger",
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[
"seal",
"seal"
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[
"pup",
"pup"
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"wolf cub",
"wolf cub"
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "jag",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "ձագ"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kutre",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
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"neuter"
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
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"english": "dog",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "hundido"
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"english": "wolf",
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
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"code": "fo",
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "hvølpur"
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"code": "fr",
"english": "dog",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chiot"
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"code": "fr",
"english": "wolf",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "louveteau"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"english": "wolf",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "louvetelle"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "petit"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cachorro"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Welpe"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "skýmnos",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σκύμνος"
},
{
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"code": "grc",
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"roman": "skúlax",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
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"feminine",
"masculine"
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{
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "gur",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "גוּר"
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"code": "io",
"english": "dog",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "hundyuno"
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"word": "volfyuno"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "catulus"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "catellus"
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"code": "nds",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Welp"
},
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"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Wülp"
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"code": "ang",
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "filhote"
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"english": "dog",
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
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"masculine"
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"word": "cățel"
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"code": "ro",
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "lupan"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ščenók",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "щено́к"
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{
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "cachorro"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "caduelo"
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{
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"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "cadillo"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "valp"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "enik"
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"code": "vo",
"english": "dog",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "young of a mammal",
"word": "dogül"
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{
"text": "July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian\nThat awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance."
},
{
"text": "October 22, 2011, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, \"Luna Eclipsed\"\nThy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
}
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"glosses": [
"An insolent youth; a mere child."
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[
"insolent",
"insolent"
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[
"youth",
"youth"
],
[
"mere",
"mere"
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[
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"(derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child."
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"A kind of ship."
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"(obsolete) A kind of ship."
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"One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship."
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"A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog)."
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[
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"ipa": "/wɛlp/"
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{
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"note": "without the wine–whine merger"
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{
"text": "The bitch whelped.",
"type": "example"
},
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"text": "The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.",
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"To give birth."
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[
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[
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"qualifier": "she-wolf",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of she-dog"
],
"tags": [
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "okučvam se",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "окучвам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "cadellar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "hvalpe, få hvalpe"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "hvølpa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "mettre bas"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "werfen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "Junge werfen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "jungen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "wölfen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "gennó",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "γεννώ"
},
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"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"en:Baby animals",
"enm:Baby animals",
"enm:Dogs",
"enm:Machines"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "welp"
},
"expansion": "welp",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Variant of welp.",
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "whelp",
"name": "en-interj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
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{
"extra": "well",
"word": "welp"
}
],
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"Alternative form of welp (“well”)"
],
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"welp",
"welp#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
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]
}
],
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