See kiken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
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"2": "kika"
},
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"name": "cog"
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},
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"tags": [
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},
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"text": "This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright, / As he had kyked on the newe mone.",
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"1": "fy",
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"expansion": "West Frisian kytse",
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"1": "nl",
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"expansion": "Dutch kijken",
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"1": "sv",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (74c5344 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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