drear

[dreer] Origin

drear

[dreer]
adjective Literary.

Origin:
1620–30; back formation from dreary
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Drear is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
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 screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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Word Origin & History

drear
1620s, poetic shortening of dreary.
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