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{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007 November 10, Joy Dettman, One Sunday, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 184",
"text": "What time did you wake up, and what woke you so flamin' early on a Sunday morning? Something must have woke you. The alarm clock?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "wake"
}
],
"glosses": [
"past participle of wake"
],
"links": [
[
"wake",
"wake#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now colloquial or dialectal) past participle of wake"
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"dialectal",
"form-of",
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wəʊk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/woʊk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊk"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-woke.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8c/En-us-woke.ogg/En-us-woke.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/En-us-woke.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "wōk"
}
],
"word": "woke"
}
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