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"word": "will o' the wisp"
}
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{
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{
"text": "A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out."
},
{
"text": "A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind."
}
],
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"A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group."
],
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"bundle",
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],
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"straw",
"straw"
],
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"slender",
"slender"
],
[
"flexible",
"flexible"
],
[
"structure",
"structure"
],
[
"group",
"group"
]
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"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ar",
"english": "hair",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵuṣla",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "خُصْلَة"
},
{
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"code": "ar",
"english": "straw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥuzma",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "حُزْمَة"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ar",
"english": "smoke",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵayṭ",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خَيْط"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kičur",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кичур"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bri"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "borrall"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "borralló"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pramínek (vlasů, trávy)"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "proužek (dýmu)"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"word": "sliert"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"word": "nippu"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "brin"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fétu"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "touffe"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳona",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"word": "კონა"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Haarbüschel"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Strohbündel"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Wisch"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Strähne"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dünne Fahne"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dlaoi"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ciocca"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trefolo"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "legnolo"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pagliuzza"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Mandarin",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"word": "束"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Mandarin",
"roman": "liǔ",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"word": "绺"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Mandarin",
"roman": "lǚ",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"word": "缕"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wesch"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "pl",
"english": "wisp of hair",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kosmyk"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "pl",
"english": "wisp of smoke",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wstęga"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "kłęby"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tufo"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "șuviță"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "șuvițe"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pučók",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пучо́к"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "brizna"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mechón"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "voluta"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jirón"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"word": "tutam saç"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"word": "tutam"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 4 2 2 1 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vixotʹ",
"sense": "a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "віхоть"
}
]
},
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Cleaning",
"orig": "en:Cleaning",
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"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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"A whisk, or small broom."
],
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"whisk",
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],
[
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"A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus."
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"ref": "2017 September 10, Nigel Warburton, “What does a portrait of Erica the android tell us about being human?”, in The Observer",
"text": "Another traditional answer to the question of what makes us so different, popular for millennia, has been that humans have a non-physical soul, one that inhabits the body but is distinct from it, an ethereal ghostly wisp that floats free at death to enjoy an after-life which may include reunion with other souls, or perhaps a new body to inhabit.",
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"glosses": [
"An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul."
],
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[
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{
"ref": "1861, Horace William Wheelwright, Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist, page 99",
"text": "They shift their quarters in the early part of the season very suddenly, and if a man hears of a wisp of snipe in any particular place, he must be off at once.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 158",
"text": "A flock of snipe is given the collective name of a \"wisp\", perhaps due to its rapid twisting and turning before the birds drop down again.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A flock of snipe."
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"(archaic) A flock of snipe."
],
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"glosses": [
"A disease affecting the feet of cattle."
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"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle."
],
"tags": [
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}
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪsp"
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"form": "wisping",
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{
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{
"ref": "1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty",
"text": "The very same head of hair, wisp'd, and matted together, would make the most disagreeable figure.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To brush or dress, as with a wisp."
],
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"(transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp."
],
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"transitive"
]
},
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"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To rumple."
],
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple."
],
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]
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{
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 70",
"text": "To Temple, sitting in the cottonseed-hulls and the corn-cobs, the sound was no louder than the striking of a match: a short, minor sound shutting down the scene, the instant, with a profound finality, completely isolating it, and she sat there, her legs straight before her, her hands limp and palm-up on her lap, looking at Popeye's tight back and the ridges of his coat across his shoulders as he leaned out the door, the pistol behind him, against his flank, wisping thinly along his leg.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To produce a wisp, as of smoke."
],
"id": "en-wisp-en-verb-6XPLuRt4",
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
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{
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"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Veterinary medicine",
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"parents": [
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"Medicine",
"Lifeforms",
"Biology",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
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"ref": "1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 70",
"text": "To Temple, sitting in the cottonseed-hulls and the corn-cobs, the sound was no louder than the striking of a match: a short, minor sound shutting down the scene, the instant, with a profound finality, completely isolating it, and she sat there, her legs straight before her, her hands limp and palm-up on her lap, looking at Popeye's tight back and the ridges of his coat across his shoulders as he leaned out the door, the pistol behind him, against his flank, wisping thinly along his leg.",
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