cliffs

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 fool or simpleton; ninny.

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cliff (klɪf)

—n
	a steep high rock face, esp one that runs along the seashore and has the strata exposed

[Old English clif; related to Old Norse kleif, Middle Low German klēf, Dutch klif; see cleave²]

'cliffy

—*adj*

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cliff

O.E. clif, from P.Gmc. *kliban, perhaps from PIE base *gleibh- "to adhere, be attached."

Example sentences

The enormous dead lift up their pale fires and look over the rocky cliffs.

In some places the ridge is sharp as a knife, with cliffs on either side.

Such cliffs, believe me, have not for years been hung from.

Rooms have views of the surrounding red rock cliffs.

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Matching Quote

"One moment, on the rapid's top, our boat
Hung poised —and then the darting river of Life
(Such now, methought, it was), the river of Life,
Loud thundering, bore us by; swift, swift it foamed,
Black under cliffs it raced, round headlands shone."

-Matthew Arnold