unau

u·nau

[yoo-naw, oo-nou]
Also, unai.


Origin:
1765–75; < French < Tupian; akin to Tupi unáu

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unau (ˈjuːnaʊ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
See sloth the two-toed sloth
 
[C18: via French from Tupi]

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unau is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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