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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "whetter"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "whetstone"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "whetten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English whetten",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "hwettan",
"t": "to whet, sharpen, incite, encourage"
},
"expansion": "Old English hwettan (“to whet, sharpen, incite, encourage”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*hwattjan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hwatjaną",
"t": "to incite, sharpen"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hwatjaną (“to incite, sharpen”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kʷeh₁d-",
"t": "sharp"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁d- (“sharp”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "wetten",
"t": "to whet, sharpen"
},
"expansion": "Dutch wetten (“to whet, sharpen”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "wetzen",
"t": "to whet, sharpen"
},
"expansion": "German wetzen (“to whet, sharpen”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "hvetja",
"t": "to whet, encourage, catalyze"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic hvetja (“to whet, encourage, catalyze”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "hvæde",
"t": "to whet"
},
"expansion": "Danish hvæde (“to whet”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English whetten, from Old English hwettan (“to whet, sharpen, incite, encourage”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *hwatjaną (“to incite, sharpen”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁d- (“sharp”).\nCognate with Dutch wetten (“to whet, sharpen”), German wetzen (“to whet, sharpen”), Icelandic hvetja (“to whet, encourage, catalyze”), dialectal Danish hvæde (“to whet”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "whets",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "whetting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "whetted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "whetted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "whet",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "whet",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"past2": "whet"
},
"expansion": "whet (third-person singular simple present whets, present participle whetting, simple past and past participle whetted or whet)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone."
],
"id": "en-whet-en-verb-wXr~SK7e",
"links": [
[
"hone",
"hone"
],
[
"rub",
"rub"
],
[
"substance",
"substance"
],
[
"stone",
"stone"
],
[
"sharpening",
"sharpening"
],
[
"whetstone",
"whetstone"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥaddada",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "حَدَّدَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šaḥaḏa",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "شَحَذَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "tačýcʹ",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "тачы́ць"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "toča",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "точа"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ostrja",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "остря"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "esmolar"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "磨"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "brousit"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "nabrousit"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ostřit"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "naostřit"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "wetten"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "slijpen"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "scherpen"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "aiguiser"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "wetzen"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "köszörül"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "faobhraigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "géaraigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "affilare"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "lap",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "ລັບ"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "acuō"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "wetzen"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "schläifen"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "schäerfen"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "toči",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "точи"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ostri",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "остри"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "oroi"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "mrw",
"lang": "Maranao",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "bagid"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ii",
"lang": "Nuosu",
"roman": "zhur",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "ꍚ"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ostrzyć"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "naostrzyć"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "amolar"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "afiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "ascuţi"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "točítʹ",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "точи́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "právitʹ",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "пра́вить"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "mmulari"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "brúsiť"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "nabrúsiť"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ostriť"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "naostriť"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "afilar"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "slipa"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "skärpa"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "fila"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "iṭaṅkam",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "இடங்கம்"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "láp",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"word": "ลับ"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "točýty",
"sense": "hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "точи́ти"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to whet one's appetite or one's courage",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xv",
"text": "My faith in vegetarianism grew on me from day to day. Salt's book whetted my appetite for dietetic studies. I went in for all books available on vegetarianism and read them."
},
{
"ref": "2003 October 9, Naomi Wolf, “The Porn Myth”, in New York Magazine",
"text": "In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stimulate or make more keen."
],
"id": "en-whet-en-verb-MQm43399",
"links": [
[
"stimulate",
"stimulate"
],
[
"keen",
"keen"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To stimulate or make more keen."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izostrjam",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "изострям"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎzbuždam",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "възбуждам"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "wetten"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "scherpen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "géaraigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "stimolare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "stuzzicare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "whakapuku"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "aguçar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "estimular"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "aţâţa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozbuždátʹ",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "возбужда́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obostrjátʹ",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "обостря́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razžigatʹ",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "разжигать"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "scummàttiri"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "stuzzinijari"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "allisciari"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stimulate or make more keen",
"word": "estimular"
}
]
},
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"To preen."
],
"id": "en-whet-en-verb-KU-4pynv",
"links": [
[
"preen",
"preen"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To preen."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɛt/",
"note": "without wine–whine"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈwɛ(ʔ)t̚]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɛt/",
"note": "without wine–whine"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʍɛ(ʔ)t̚]",
"note": "without wine–whine"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛt"
},
{
"homophone": "wet (with wine–whine merger)"
},
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"note": "with wine-whine merger",
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"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US, with wine-whine merger)"
},
{
"audio": "En-US-whet.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/En-US-whet.wav/En-US-whet.wav.mp3",
"note": "without wine-whine merger",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/En-US-whet.wav/En-US-whet.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US, without wine-whine merger)"
}
],
"word": "whet"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "whet slate"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "whetten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English whetten",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "hwettan",
"t": "to whet, sharpen, incite, encourage"
},
"expansion": "Old English hwettan (“to whet, sharpen, incite, encourage”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*hwattjan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hwatjaną",
"t": "to incite, sharpen"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hwatjaną (“to incite, sharpen”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kʷeh₁d-",
"t": "sharp"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁d- (“sharp”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "wetten",
"t": "to whet, sharpen"
},
"expansion": "Dutch wetten (“to whet, sharpen”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "wetzen",
"t": "to whet, sharpen"
},
"expansion": "German wetzen (“to whet, sharpen”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "hvetja",
"t": "to whet, encourage, catalyze"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic hvetja (“to whet, encourage, catalyze”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "hvæde",
"t": "to whet"
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"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"word": "whet slate"
}
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"2": "enm",
"3": "whetten"
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "hwettan",
"t": "to whet, sharpen, incite, encourage"
},
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"name": "inh"
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"2": "gmw-pro",
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"name": "inh"
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"2": "gem-pro",
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"name": "inh"
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"2": "ine-pro",
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "wetten",
"t": "to whet, sharpen"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "wetzen",
"t": "to whet, sharpen"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "hvetja",
"t": "to whet, encourage, catalyze"
},
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
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"name": "cog"
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"form": "whets",
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}
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"glosses": [
"The act of whetting something."
]
},
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"categories": [
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English Housekeeper",
"text": "To make a nice Whet before Dinner […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major",
"text": "A really good game, to my mind, must have an element, however slight, of physical danger to the player. This is the great whet to skilled performance.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer."
],
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}
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"ipa": "/ˈwɛt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɛt/",
"note": "without wine–whine"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈwɛ(ʔ)t̚]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɛt/",
"note": "without wine–whine"
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{
"ipa": "[ˈʍɛ(ʔ)t̚]",
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"homophone": "wet (with wine–whine merger)"
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