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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

polari en · VERB

Etymology

From Italian parlare (“to talk”). See Polari for more.

Meanings

  1. (Polari, ambitransitive) To speak or talk, particularly in slang or cant.
    • Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel. 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

Forms

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polariing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
polarying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
polaris Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
polaried Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
polaried Tense=Past lexicographic