| acute accent | |
| —n | |
| the diacritical mark (´), used in the writing system of some languages to indicate that the vowel over which it is placed has a special quality (as in French été) or that it receives the strongest stress in the word (as in Spanish hablé) | |
| acute accent | |
noun | |
| a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |