al·ec

1 [al-ik]
noun Obsolete.
1.
2.
a sauce or relish made from small herring or anchovies.

Origin:
1510–20; < Latin (h)al(l)ec fish sauce

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al·ec

2 [al-ik]
noun Australian.
a simpleton or fool.

Origin:
1920–25; compare smart-aleck; sense shift perhaps orig. from ironic usage

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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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Al·ec

[al-ik]
noun
a male given name, form of Alexander.
Also, Al·eck.
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ALEC
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