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"ref": "2010 October 3, Sean Gordon, “Gionta settles in, stands out”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ont.: The Globe and Mail Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-15",
"text": "Wrangling a chaotic group of five-year-olds is unnerving enough without the added stress of a famous NHLer [Brian Gionta] in the room helping lace his son’s skates.",
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"(Western US) To herd (horses or other livestock).",
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"(Western US) To herd (horses or other livestock).",
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"ref": "1962 January 12, “Cinema: The Second Time Around [film review]”, in Roy Alexander, editor, Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-07-17",
"text": "When she [Debbie Reynolds as Lucretia Rogers] tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck.",
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"Followed by out: to put forward arguments on (a case, a matter disagreed upon, etc.)."
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"ref": "1649 April 20 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Robert Sanderson, “[Appendix, No. 5.] Letter I. Dr. Sanderson to N. N., Respecting the Relative Merits of the Presbyterians and the Independents”, in George D’Oyly, The Life of William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1821, →OCLC, page 442",
"text": "When we have wrangled ourselves as long as our wits and strengths will serve us, the honest, downright sober English Protestant will be found, in the end, the man in the safest way, and by the surest line: […]",
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"To cause (oneself) grief through arguing or quarrelling."
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"(reflexive) To cause (oneself) grief through arguing or quarrelling."
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"ref": "1574, John Whitgift, “Of Matters Touching Baptism. Tract XVI. [Of the Parties that are to be Baptised. Chapter iv. The First Division.]”, in John Ayre, editor, The Works of John Whitgift, D.D. […] The Third Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates XI–XXIII. Sermons, Selected Letters, &c., Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University Press, published 1853, →OCLC, page 134",
"text": "[A]fter his old manner, he wrangleth and quarrelleth.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1607, Terence, “Andria”, in R[ichard] B[ernard], transl., Terence in English. Fabulæ Comici Facetissimi et Elegantissimi Poetæ Terentii Omnes Anglicæ Factæ, […], 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Iohannis Legat, →OCLC, act IV, scene i, page 71",
"text": "There vvas a contention of vvordes betvvixt you & your father erevvhile. Thou vvert at vvords, or vvrangledſt vvith him right novv.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1619, Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fooles: Or A Comicall Morall, Censuring the Follies of this Age, […], [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 10",
"text": "[H]ee cavelleth or vvrangleth not vvith any in this kind: therefore you are a lying fellovv.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1896, [Vyasa], chapter XXXI, in [anonymous], transl., edited by Manmatha Nath Dutt, A Prose English Translation of Srimadbhagavatam, book I, Calcutta, West Bengal: […] H. C. Dass, […], →OCLC, page 150",
"text": "Then this person influenced by desire, on account of his ever-increasing anger and sense of self-importance, wrangleth with others in order to bring destruction down upon himself.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1941, Emily Carr, “Salt Water”, in Klee Wyck, centennial edition, Toronto, Ont., Vancouver, B.C.: Clarke, Irwin & Company, published 1971, page 83",
"text": "I stood where land and sea wrangled ferociously over the overlap.",
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"To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker."
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(also figuratively) To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker."
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{
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{
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"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "karam se",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "карам се"
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{
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"roman": "prepiram se",
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"word": "препирам се"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "kiistellä"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "rähistä"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "riidellä"
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"word": "torailla"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "disputer"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "quereller"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "rangeln"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "streiten"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "civakodik"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "pörlekedik"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "veszekedik"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "altercor"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
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},
{
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "rure"
},
{
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"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "taungaungau"
},
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"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
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},
{
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "disputar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "kłócić się"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "spierać"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "disputar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "dispută aprinsă"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prerekátʹsja",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пререка́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spóritʹ",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "спо́рить"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzdóritʹ",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вздо́рить"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "gräla"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "käbbla"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 1 3 3 7 3 6 7 4 43 5 9",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "munhuggas"
}
]
},
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],
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[
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[
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[
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"(intransitive)",
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],
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{
"word": "jangle"
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],
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],
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 0 4 1 1 1 1 1 5 3 79 1",
"code": "fi",
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"word": "rähistä"
}
]
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"ref": "1566, Iohn Martiall [i.e., John Marshall], “That the Apostles and Fathers of the Primitive Churche Blessed Them Selves, &c. The Fifth Article.”, in A Replie to M. Calfhills Blasphemous Answer Made against the Treatise of the Crosse, […], Louvain: […] Iohn Bogard […], →OCLC; reprinted as D[avid] M[cGregor] Rogers, editor, A Replie to M. Calfhills Blasphemous Answer 1566 (English Recusant Literature 1558–1640; 203), Ilkley, Yorkshire, London: The Scolar Press, 1974, folio 145, recto",
"text": "Forſoothe, that vvhen he had concluded that vve muſt no liue by examples, but by lavves, he might make ſimple ſoules beleaue, that they ought not follovve the exãples of their holy forefathers, in bleſsing them ſelues, but to haue the name of the lavve in their mouthes and do nothing leſſe thã that the lavve biddeth them to doe. And to bring that to paſſe ſee hovve he vvrangleth.",
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}
],
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],
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[
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],
[
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],
[
"thesis",
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],
[
"university",
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]
],
"qualifier": "generally",
"raw_glosses": [
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],
"tags": [
"also",
"figuratively",
"intransitive"
],
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{
"_dis1": "2 2 1 1 1 5 1 2 3 4 6 1 72",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to debate or discuss publicly, especially about a thesis at a university",
"word": "väitellä"
}
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɹæŋɡ(ə)l/",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
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},
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],
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}
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"_dis1": "0 1 0 0 30 30 30 2 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rabptja kato kauboj",
"sense": "to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people)",
"word": "рабптя като каубой"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 0 30 30 30 2 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people)",
"word": "paimentaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 0 30 30 30 2 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people)",
"word": "treiben"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 0 30 30 30 2 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people)",
"word": "pastorar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 0 30 30 30 2 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people)",
"word": "păstori"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 0 30 30 30 2 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people)",
"word": "driva"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 0 30 30 30 2 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people)",
"word": "valla"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 0 30 30 30 2 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people)",
"word": "leda"
}
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}
{
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "wranglesome"
}
],
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},
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{
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{
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},
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{
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},
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},
{
"args": {
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"2": "rangeln",
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},
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}
],
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"tags": [
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]
}
],
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{
"ref": "2020 January 31, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, quotee, “Brexit: Flag lowered at Senedd as the UK leaves the EU”, in BBC News, published 1 February 2020, archived from the original on 2022-10-13",
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[
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[
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation."
],
"tags": [
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],
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"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prepirnja",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "kiista"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "rähinä"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "sanasota"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "tora"
},
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"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "grc",
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"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
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"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "civakodás"
},
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"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "összetűzés"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "veszekedés"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "caitleáil"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "callóid"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clampar"
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{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pléadáil"
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{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "siosma"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "briga"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "ceartă aprinsă"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "altercado"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "disputa"
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{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "gresca"
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{
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "gräl"
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{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "käbbel"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 28 1 5",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "munhuggande"
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"text": "Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.",
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],
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) Angry disputation; noisy quarrelling."
],
"tags": [
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"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "karanica",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "караница"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kavga",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "кавга"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"word": "kiistely"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"word": "rähinöinti"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"word": "riitely"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"word": "torailu"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rangelei"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Streit"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"word": "disputar"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perebránka",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "перебра́нка"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spor",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спор"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ssóra",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ссо́ра"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 74 0 1",
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"ref": "1574, John Whitgift, “Of Matters Touching Baptism. Tract XVI. [Of the Parties that are to be Baptised. Chapter iv. The First Division.]”, in John Ayre, editor, The Works of John Whitgift, D.D. […] The Third Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates XI–XXIII. Sermons, Selected Letters, &c., Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University Press, published 1853, →OCLC, page 134",
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"ref": "1566, Iohn Martiall [i.e., John Marshall], “That the Apostles and Fathers of the Primitive Churche Blessed Them Selves, &c. The Fifth Article.”, in A Replie to M. Calfhills Blasphemous Answer Made against the Treatise of the Crosse, […], Louvain: […] Iohn Bogard […], →OCLC; reprinted as D[avid] M[cGregor] Rogers, editor, A Replie to M. Calfhills Blasphemous Answer 1566 (English Recusant Literature 1558–1640; 203), Ilkley, Yorkshire, London: The Scolar Press, 1974, folio 145, recto",
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"code": "ro",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
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"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
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"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "quereller"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "rangeln"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "streiten"
},
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "civakodik"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "rure"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "taungaungau"
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "carpinhar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "disputar"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "kłócić się"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "spierać"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "disputar"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "dispută aprinsă"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "prerekátʹsja",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "gräla"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "käbbla"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker",
"word": "munhuggas"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to make harsh noises as if quarrelling",
"word": "rähistä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to debate or discuss publicly, especially about a thesis at a university",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
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],
"word": "препирня"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "kiista"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "rähinä"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "riita"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "sanasota"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "tora"
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"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "civakodás"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "összetűzés"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "veszekedés"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
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"word": "caitleáil"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
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"word": "callóid"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
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"word": "siosma"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "briga"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "ceartă aprinsă"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "altercado"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"tags": [
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"word": "disputa"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
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"word": "gresca"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "gräl"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "käbbel"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "angry dispute; noisy quarrel",
"word": "munhuggande"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "karanica",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "караница"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "kavga",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"tags": [
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"word": "кавга"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"word": "kiistely"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"word": "rähinöinti"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
"word": "torailu"
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"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
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"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
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"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
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"word": "ссо́ра"
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"sense": "angry disputation; noisy quarrelling",
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