'quester
World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | the act or an instance of looking for or seeking; search: a quest for diamonds |
| 2. | (in medieval romance) an expedition by a knight or company of knights to accomplish some prescribed task, such as finding the Holy Grail |
| 3. | the object of a search; goal or target: my quest is the treasure of the king |
| 4. | rare a collection of alms |
| —vb (foll by for | |
| 5. | to go in search (of) |
| 6. | to go on a quest |
| 7. | of gun dogs or hounds |
| a. to search for game | |
| b. to bay when in pursuit of game | |
| 8. | rare to collect alms |
| 9. | archaic (also tr) to go in search of (a thing); seek or pursue |
| [C14: from Old French queste, from Latin quaesita sought, from quaerere to seek] | |
| 'quester | |
| —n | |
| 'questing | |
| —adj | |
| 'questingly | |
| —adv | |
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'quester
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| 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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