See yaws in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-yaws.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-yaws.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-yaws.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-yaws.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːz"
},
{
"homophone": "yous (some non-rhotic accents, especially with the pour–poor merger)"
}
],
"word": "yaws"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English noun forms",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɔːz",
"Rhymes:English/ɔːz/1 syllable",
"en:Bacterial diseases"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Inflected forms.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "yaws",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "yaw"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of yaw"
],
"links": [
[
"yaw",
"yaw#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈjɔːz/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-yaws.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-yaws.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-yaws.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-yaws.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-yaws.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːz"
},
{
"homophone": "yous (some non-rhotic accents, especially with the pour–poor merger)"
}
],
"word": "yaws"
}
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