Beaker folk

[bee-ker]

Beaker folk

[bee-ker]
noun
a late Neolithic to Copper Age people living in Europe, so called in reference to the bell beakers commonly found buried with their dead in barrows.
Also called Beaker people.


Origin:
1920–25
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Beaker folk 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.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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Beaker folk
 
n
a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
 
[C20: named after the beakers found among their remains]

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