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{"id": "cantankerous", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "cantankerous", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "cantankerously", "text": "cantankerously"}, {"id": "cantankerousness", "text": "cantankerousness"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["mid 18th century: of unknown origin; perhaps a blend of Anglo-Irish cant \u2018auction\u2019 and rancorous (see rancour)"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/cantankerous_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "kan\u02c8ta\u014bk(\u0259)r\u0259s"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative"], "examples": [{"text": "he can be a cantankerous old fossil at times"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0148850.005", "shortDefinitions": ["bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "bad-tempered"}, {"language": "en", "text": "irascible"}, {"language": "en", "text": "irritable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "grumpy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "grouchy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "crotchety"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tetchy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "testy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "crusty"}, {"language": "en", "text": "curmudgeonly"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ill-tempered"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ill-natured"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ill-humoured"}, {"language": "en", "text": "peevish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "cross"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fractious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "disagreeable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pettish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "crabbed"}, {"language": "en", "text": "crabby"}, {"language": "en", "text": "waspish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "prickly"}, {"language": "en", "text": "peppery"}, {"language": "en", "text": "touchy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "scratchy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "splenetic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "shrewish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "short-tempered"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hot-tempered"}, {"language": "en", "text": "quick-tempered"}, {"language": "en", "text": "dyspeptic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "choleric"}, {"language": "en", "text": "bilious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "liverish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "cross-grained"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "cantankerous", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0002004.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "cantankerous"}], "type": "headword", "word": "cantankerous"}], "word": "cantankerous"}