"wit" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /wɪt/ Audio: en-us-wit.ogg [US] Forms: wits [plural]
enPR: wĭt Rhymes: -ɪt Etymology: From Middle English wit, from Old English witt (“understanding, intellect, sense, knowledge, consciousness, conscience”), from Proto-West Germanic *witi, from Proto-Germanic *witją (“knowledge, reason”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Cognate with Dutch weet, German Witz, Danish vid, Swedish vett, Norwegian Bokmål vett, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti, “ignorance”), Latin vīdī (“see (pf.)”), Bulgarian вям (vjam), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ), Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā). Compare wise. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*weyd-}}, {{inh|en|enm|wit}} Middle English wit, {{inh|en|ang|witt||understanding, intellect, sense, knowledge, consciousness, conscience}} Old English witt (“understanding, intellect, sense, knowledge, consciousness, conscience”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*witi}} Proto-West Germanic *witi, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*witją||knowledge, reason}} Proto-Germanic *witją (“knowledge, reason”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*weyd-||see, know}} Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”), {{cog|nl|weet}} Dutch weet, {{cog|de|Witz}} German Witz, {{cog|da|vid}} Danish vid, {{cog|sv|vett}} Swedish vett, {{cog|nb|vett}} Norwegian Bokmål vett, {{cog|got|𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹||ignorance}} Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti, “ignorance”), {{cog|la|vīdī||see (pf.)}} Latin vīdī (“see (pf.)”), {{cog|bg|вям}} Bulgarian вям (vjam), {{cog|ru|ве́дать}} Russian ве́дать (védatʹ), {{cog|sa|विद्या}} Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā), {{m|en|wise}} wise Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wit (countable and uncountable, plural wits)
  1. (now usually in the plural) Sanity. Tags: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Translations (mind; sanity): խելք (xelkʿ) (Armenian), разум (razum) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ment [feminine] (Catalan), enteniment [masculine] (Catalan), rozum [masculine] (Czech), vid [neuter] (Danish), mentalidade [feminine] (Galician), siso [masculine] (Galician), entendemento [masculine] (Galician), ჭკუა (č̣ḳua) (Georgian), გონება (goneba) (Georgian), von Sinnen (english: out of wits) (German), bei Sinnen (note: in one's right mind) (German), senno (Italian), prāts [masculine] (Latvian), saprāts [masculine] (Latvian), vett [neuter] (Norwegian), esperit [masculine] (Occitan), sen [masculine] (Occitan), èime [masculine] (Occitan), ment [feminine] (Occitan), mentalidade (Portuguese), sanidade (Portuguese), ра́зум (rázum) [masculine] (Russian), mentalidad (Spanish), cordura [feminine] (Spanish), розум (rozum) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-wit-en-noun-2q3h6aD6 Disambiguation of 'mind; sanity': 84 0 4 1 10 1 0
  2. (obsolete, usually in the plural) The senses. Tags: countable, obsolete, plural-normally, uncountable
    Sense id: en-wit-en-noun-JUrBgj~7
  3. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (intellectual ability): ⁧وعي⁩ (Arabic), ⁧إدراك⁩ (Arabic), խելք (xelkʿ) (Armenian), ум (um) (Bulgarian), vid [neuter] (Danish), siso [masculine] (Galician), intelecto [masculine] (Galician), Verstand [masculine] (German), Intellekt [masculine] (German), ingegno vivace (Italian), arguzia (Italian), ingenium [neuter] (Latin), forstand [masculine] (Norwegian), intellekt [neuter] (Norwegian), intelectual (Portuguese), intelecto (Portuguese), ум (um) [masculine] (Russian), intelectualidad (Spanish), intelecto [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wit-en-noun-YwM7VAL6 Disambiguation of 'intellectual ability': 1 0 53 37 8 1 1
  4. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Comedy Translations (Ability to think quickly): съобразителност (sǎobrazitelnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), vtip [masculine] (Czech), důvtip [masculine] (Czech), sukkeluus (Finnish), nokkeluus (Finnish), sutkaus (Finnish), გონებამახვილობა (gonebamaxviloba) (Georgian), Auffassungsgabe [feminine] (German), arguzia (Italian), genio (Italian), acutezza [feminine] (Italian), 눈치 (nunchi) (Korean), atjautība [feminine] (Latvian), agudeza (Portuguese), agudez (Portuguese), esperteza [feminine] (Portuguese), schepsis [neuter] (Romanian), ум (um) [masculine] (Russian), agudeza (Spanish), inteligencia (Spanish), ingenio (Spanish), mentalidad (Spanish), gracia (Spanish), listeza [feminine] (Spanish), nükte (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-wit-en-noun-W-IKK5hH Disambiguation of Comedy: 3 2 6 12 7 35 29 6 1 Disambiguation of 'Ability to think quickly': 0 0 35 59 4 1 1
  5. Intelligence; common sense. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-wit-en-noun-kieEG96j
  6. Humour, especially when clever or quick. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Comedy
    Sense id: en-wit-en-noun-24c4oXdI Disambiguation of Comedy: 3 2 6 12 7 35 29 6 1
  7. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Comedy Translations (A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes): divertit (Catalan), spritulo (Esperanto), petit malin [masculine] (French), Witzbold [masculine] (German), ilare (Italian), battuta [feminine] (Italian), facezia [feminine] (Italian), spiritosaggine [feminine] (Italian), freddura [feminine] (Italian), scurra [masculine] (Latin), asprātis [masculine] (Latvian), naho (Maori), остря́к (ostrják) [masculine] (Russian), imaginativo [masculine] (Spanish), divertido [masculine] (Spanish), hilaro [masculine] (Spanish), hilara [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wit-en-noun-zwhRQmC- Disambiguation of Comedy: 3 2 6 12 7 35 29 6 1 Disambiguation of 'A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes': 0 1 2 1 1 2 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: acid, biting, cutting, lambent Translations (Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly): ἀστεϊσμός (asteïsmós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), остроу́мие (ostroúmie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), vtip [masculine] (Czech), humor [masculine] (Czech), vid [neuter] (Danish), mot d’esprit [masculine] (French), Witz [masculine] (German), senso umoristico (Italian), motto di spirito [masculine] (Italian), spirito [masculine] (Italian), prontezza di spirito (Italian), brio [masculine] (Italian), argūtia [feminine] (Latin), facetiae [feminine, plural] (Latin), asprātība [feminine] (Latvian), ngutu atamai (Maori), vidd [neuter] (Norwegian), Witsichkjeit [feminine] (Plautdietsch), humorístico [masculine] (Portuguese), humor (Portuguese), engraçado [masculine] (Portuguese), остроу́мие (ostroúmije) [neuter] (Russian), humor [masculine] (Spanish), gracia [feminine] (Spanish), mordacidad [feminine] (Spanish), chiste espontáneo [masculine] (Spanish)
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: afterwit, brevity is the soul of wit, collect one's wits, witty, forewit, fuckwit, gather one's wits, half-wit, have one’s wits about one, inwit, lackwit, mother wit, native wit, nitwit, dimwit, scare out of one’s wits, staircase wit, wit tooth, wit-cracker, wit-cracking, witcraft, witful, witless, witling, witter, wittol, witticism Disambiguation of 'Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly': 1 2 3 44 4 42 3

Preposition

IPA: /wɪt/ [Southern-American-English], /wɪtʃ/ [Southern-American-English], /wɪt/ Audio: en-us-wit.ogg [US]
enPR: wĭt Rhymes: -ɪt Etymology: From with. Etymology templates: {{m|en|with}} with Head templates: {{head|en|prepositions|head=}} wit, {{en-prep}} wit
  1. (Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of with. Tags: Southern-US, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: with
    Sense id: en-wit-en-prep-YBOtKyb~ Categories (other): English pronunciation spellings, Southern US English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /wɪt/ Audio: en-us-wit.ogg [US]
enPR: wĭt Rhymes: -ɪt Etymology: From Middle English witen, from Old English witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Cognate with Icelandic vita, Dutch weten, German wissen, Swedish veta, and Latin videō (“I see”). Compare guide. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*weyd-}}, {{der|en|enm|witen}} Middle English witen, {{der|en|ang|witan}} Old English witan, {{der|en|gmw-pro|*witan}} Proto-West Germanic *witan, {{der|en|gem-pro|*witaną}} Proto-Germanic *witaną, {{der|en|ine-pro|*weyd-||see, know}} Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”), {{cog|is|vita}} Icelandic vita, {{cog|nl|weten}} Dutch weten, {{cog|de|wissen}} German wissen, {{cog|sv|veta}} Swedish veta, {{cog|la|videō||I see}} Latin videō (“I see”), {{m|en|guide}} guide Head templates: {{head|en|verb|cat2=defective verbs}} wit Forms: wit [infinitive], wit [imperative], witting [participle, present], wist [participle, past], wot [first-person, indicative, present, singular], wist [first-person, indicative, past, singular], wost [indicative, present, second-person, singular], wot [archaic, indicative, present, second-person, singular], wottest [archaic, indicative, present, second-person, singular], wist [indicative, past, second-person, singular], wistest [indicative, past, second-person, singular]
  1. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively). Tags: archaic, intransitive, transitive Derived forms: bewit, to wit, unwitting, witness Translations (Know, be aware of): зная (znaja) (Bulgarian), vide (Danish), weten (Dutch), scii (Esperanto), savoir (French), connaître (French), wissen (German), zināt (Latvian), nojaust (Latvian), vite (Norwegian Bokmål), saber (Occitan), знать (znatʹ) (Russian), ве́дать (védatʹ) (Russian), veta (Swedish), ⁧درى⁩ (derā) (Yemeni Arabic)
    Sense id: en-wit-en-verb-en:know
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "weet"
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      "expansion": "Dutch weet",
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        "2": "ве́дать"
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      "expansion": "Russian ве́дать (védatʹ)",
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      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
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      "word": "acid"
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        "Sanity."
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "razum",
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ment"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
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          "word": "enteniment"
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        {
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "rozum"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
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        {
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "mentalidade"
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        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "siso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "entendemento"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "č̣ḳua",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "word": "ჭკუა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "goneba",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "word": "გონება"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "de",
          "english": "out of wits",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "word": "von Sinnen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "in one's right mind",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "word": "bei Sinnen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "word": "senno"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "prāts"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "saprāts"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "vett"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "esperit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
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        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
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        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "oc",
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          "sense": "mind; sanity",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "ment"
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        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "word": "mentalidade"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "word": "sanidade"
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        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "rázum",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
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          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "word": "mentalidad"
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        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cordura"
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        {
          "_dis1": "84 0 4 1 10 1 0",
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          "roman": "rozum",
          "sense": "mind; sanity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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        "(obsolete, usually in the plural) The senses."
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        {
          "text": "Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.",
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        "Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning."
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
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          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "intellectual ability",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "intellectual ability",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
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          "sense": "intellectual ability",
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
          "code": "it",
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
          "code": "la",
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          "sense": "intellectual ability",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
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          "word": "intellekt"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
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          "sense": "intellectual ability",
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "intellectual ability",
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        {
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          "word": "ум"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 53 37 8 1 1",
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          "sense": "intellectual ability",
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          "text": "My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.",
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          "code": "ka",
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          "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
          "word": "გონებამახვილობა"
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        {
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          "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 35 59 4 1 1",
          "code": "it",
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 35 59 4 1 1",
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          "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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        {
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          "roman": "nunchi",
          "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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        {
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          "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "tags": [
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        {
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "tags": [
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        {
          "text": "The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!",
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          "text": "The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.",
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        },
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          "ref": "04 February 1996, Jennifer Crittenden, “Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 14, production code 3F13",
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        {
          "text": "Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?",
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          "tags": [
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          ],
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        {
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      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
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      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    {
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      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vid"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
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      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    {
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      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ἀστεϊσμός"
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    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "word": "senso umoristico"
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    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    {
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spirito"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brio"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "argūtia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "facetiae"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asprātība"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "word": "ngutu atamai"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vidd"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Witsichkjeit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "humorístico"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "word": "humor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "engraçado"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ostroúmije",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "остроу́мие"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "humor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gracia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mordacidad"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 3 44 4 42 3",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chiste espontáneo"
    }
  ],
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}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "weten"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "wissen"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "veta"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "videō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I see"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "guide"
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      "name": "m"
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      "form": "",
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      "form": "qualifier",
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        "inflection-template"
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    },
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      "form": "wit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
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    },
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      "form": "witting",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
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      "form": "wist",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "qualifier",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
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      "form": "wot",
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        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wost",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wot",
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        "archaic",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wottest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wistest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
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        "2": "verb",
        "cat2": "defective verbs"
      },
      "expansion": "wit",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "bewit"
        },
        {
          "word": "to wit"
        },
        {
          "word": "unwitting"
        },
        {
          "word": "witness"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1483, Thomas Malory, Le morte d'Arthur",
          "text": "Truly, said fair Elaine, I shall do all that I may do, for as fain would I know and wit where he is become as you or any of his kin, or queen Guenever, and cause great enough have I thereto as well as any other. And wit ye well, said fair Elaine to Sir Bors, I would lose my life for him rather than he should be hurt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, St. Luke the Painter, lines 5–8",
          "text": "but soon having wist\nHow sky-breadth and field-silence and this day\nAre symbols also in some deeper way,\nShe looked through these to God and was God’s priest.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively)."
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        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "Know",
          "know"
        ],
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ],
        [
          "aware",
          "aware"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively)."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:know"
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
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        {
          "code": "ayn",
          "lang": "Yemeni Arabic",
          "roman": "derā",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "⁧درى⁩"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "znaja",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "зная"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "vide"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "weten"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "scii"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "savoir"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "connaître"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "wissen"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "zināt"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "nojaust"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "vite"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "saber"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "znatʹ",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "знать"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "védatʹ",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "ве́дать"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Know, be aware of",
          "word": "veta"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/wɪt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪt"
    },
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      "homophone": "whit (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-wit.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/En-us-wit.ogg/En-us-wit.ogg.mp3",
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        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "wĭt"
    }
  ],
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}

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  "etymology_number": 3,
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "with",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From with.",
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "prepositions",
        "head": ""
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      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {},
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep",
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          "word": "with"
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            "Terms by lexical property"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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    {
      "ipa": "/wɪtʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-American-English"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wɪt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪt"
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      "homophone": "whit (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
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      "audio": "en-us-wit.ogg",
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        "US"
      ],
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    {
      "enpr": "wĭt"
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}
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  ],
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    {
      "word": "afterwit"
    },
    {
      "word": "brevity is the soul of wit"
    },
    {
      "word": "collect one's wits"
    },
    {
      "word": "witty"
    },
    {
      "word": "forewit"
    },
    {
      "word": "fuckwit"
    },
    {
      "word": "gather one's wits"
    },
    {
      "word": "half-wit"
    },
    {
      "word": "have one’s wits about one"
    },
    {
      "word": "inwit"
    },
    {
      "word": "lackwit"
    },
    {
      "word": "mother wit"
    },
    {
      "word": "native wit"
    },
    {
      "word": "nitwit"
    },
    {
      "word": "dimwit"
    },
    {
      "word": "scare out of one’s wits"
    },
    {
      "word": "staircase wit"
    },
    {
      "word": "wit tooth"
    },
    {
      "word": "wit-cracker"
    },
    {
      "word": "wit-cracking"
    },
    {
      "word": "witcraft"
    },
    {
      "word": "witful"
    },
    {
      "word": "witless"
    },
    {
      "word": "witling"
    },
    {
      "word": "witter"
    },
    {
      "word": "wittol"
    },
    {
      "word": "witticism"
    }
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      "expansion": "",
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    {
      "args": {
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    {
      "args": {
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      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "weet"
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "Witz"
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      "expansion": "German Witz",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "vid"
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      "expansion": "Danish vid",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "vett"
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      "expansion": "Swedish vett",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nb",
        "2": "vett"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål vett",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹",
        "3": "",
        "4": "ignorance"
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      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti, “ignorance”)",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "vīdī",
        "3": "",
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      "expansion": "Latin vīdī (“see (pf.)”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bg",
        "2": "вям"
      },
      "expansion": "Bulgarian вям (vjam)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "Russian ве́дать (védatʹ)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
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      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wise"
      },
      "expansion": "wise",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English wit, from Old English witt (“understanding, intellect, sense, knowledge, consciousness, conscience”), from Proto-West Germanic *witi, from Proto-Germanic *witją (“knowledge, reason”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).\nCognate with Dutch weet, German Witz, Danish vid, Swedish vett, Norwegian Bokmål vett, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti, “ignorance”), Latin vīdī (“see (pf.)”), Bulgarian вям (vjam), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ), Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā). Compare wise.",
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      ]
    }
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    }
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "He's gone completely out of his wits.",
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        }
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          "sanity"
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        "(now usually in the plural) Sanity."
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        "uncountable"
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
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        [
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        "(obsolete, usually in the plural) The senses."
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        {
          "text": "Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.",
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        "Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning."
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.",
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        "The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!",
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        }
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        "uncountable"
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      "categories": [
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "04 February 1996, Jennifer Crittenden, “Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 14, production code 3F13",
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        }
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        "Humour, especially when clever or quick."
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          "humour"
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        "countable",
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      "categories": [
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?",
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "xelkʿ",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "word": "խելք"
    },
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      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "разум"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ment"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "enteniment"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rozum"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vid"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mentalidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "siso"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "entendemento"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "č̣ḳua",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "word": "ჭკუა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "goneba",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "word": "გონება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "out of wits",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "word": "von Sinnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "in one's right mind",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "word": "bei Sinnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "word": "senno"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prāts"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saprāts"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vett"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "esperit"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sen"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "èime"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ment"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "word": "mentalidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "word": "sanidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rázum",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ра́зум"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "word": "mentalidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cordura"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rozum",
      "sense": "mind; sanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "розум"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "word": "⁧وعي⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "word": "⁧إدراك⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "xelkʿ",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "word": "խելք"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "um",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "word": "ум"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vid"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "siso"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "intelecto"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Verstand"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Intellekt"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "word": "ingegno vivace"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "word": "arguzia"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ingenium"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "forstand"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "intellekt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "word": "intelectual"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "word": "intelecto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "um",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ум"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "word": "intelectualidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "intellectual ability",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "intelecto"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎobrazitelnost",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "съобразителност"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vtip"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "důvtip"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "sukkeluus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "nokkeluus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "sutkaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gonebamaxviloba",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "გონებამახვილობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Auffassungsgabe"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "arguzia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "genio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acutezza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "nunchi",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "눈치"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atjautība"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "agudeza"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "agudez"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "esperteza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "schepsis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "um",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ум"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "agudeza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "inteligencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "ingenio"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "mentalidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "gracia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "listeza"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Ability to think quickly",
      "word": "nükte"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ostroúmie",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "остроу́мие"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vtip"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "humor"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mot d’esprit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Witz"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "asteïsmós",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ἀστεϊσμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "word": "senso umoristico"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "motto di spirito"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spirito"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "word": "prontezza di spirito"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brio"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "argūtia"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "facetiae"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asprātība"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "word": "ngutu atamai"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vidd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Witsichkjeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "humorístico"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "word": "humor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "engraçado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ostroúmije",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "остроу́мие"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "humor"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gracia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mordacidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chiste espontáneo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "word": "divertit"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "word": "spritulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "petit malin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Witzbold"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "word": "ilare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "battuta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facezia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "spiritosaggine"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "freddura"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "scurra"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "asprātis"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "word": "naho"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ostrják",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "остря́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "imaginativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "divertido"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hilaro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hilara"
    }
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}

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      "word": "bewit"
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    {
      "word": "to wit"
    },
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      "word": "unwitting"
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    {
      "word": "witness"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
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      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "I see"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "guide"
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      "expansion": "guide",
      "name": "m"
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      "form": "wit",
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        "infinitive"
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      "form": "wit",
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        "imperative"
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    {
      "form": "witting",
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        "present"
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      "form": "wist",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "table-tags"
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    },
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      "form": "qualifier",
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      "form": "wot",
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        "present",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "wist",
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        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "wost",
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        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "wot",
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        "archaic",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "wottest",
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        "indicative",
        "present",
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        "singular"
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      "form": "wist",
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        "singular"
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "text": "You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1483, Thomas Malory, Le morte d'Arthur",
          "text": "Truly, said fair Elaine, I shall do all that I may do, for as fain would I know and wit where he is become as you or any of his kin, or queen Guenever, and cause great enough have I thereto as well as any other. And wit ye well, said fair Elaine to Sir Bors, I would lose my life for him rather than he should be hurt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, St. Luke the Painter, lines 5–8",
          "text": "but soon having wist\nHow sky-breadth and field-silence and this day\nAre symbols also in some deeper way,\nShe looked through these to God and was God’s priest.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively)."
      ],
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          "transitive",
          "transitive"
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        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "Know",
          "know"
        ],
        [
          "be",
          "be"
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        [
          "aware",
          "aware"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively)."
      ],
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        "en:know"
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        "archaic",
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/wɪt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "whit (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-wit.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/En-us-wit.ogg/En-us-wit.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/En-us-wit.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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    {
      "enpr": "wĭt"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ayn",
      "lang": "Yemeni Arabic",
      "roman": "derā",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "⁧درى⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "znaja",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "зная"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "vide"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "weten"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "scii"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "savoir"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "connaître"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "wissen"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "zināt"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "nojaust"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "vite"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "saber"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "znatʹ",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "знать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "védatʹ",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "ве́дать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Know, be aware of",
      "word": "veta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wit"
}

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  "categories": [
    "en:Comedy"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
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      "expansion": "with",
      "name": "m"
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      "args": {},
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    {
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        "Southern US English"
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      "glosses": [
        "Pronunciation spelling of with."
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          "Pronunciation spelling",
          "pronunciation spelling"
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          "with#English"
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        "Southern-American-English"
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      "ipa": "/wɪtʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-American-English"
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      "ipa": "/wɪt/"
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      "audio": "en-us-wit.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/En-us-wit.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "wĭt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wit"
}

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