GUTTURALS

[guht-er-uhl]

gut·tur·al

[guht-er-uhl]
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to the throat.
2.
harsh; throaty.
3.
Phonetics. pertaining to or characterized by a sound articulated in the back of the mouth, as the non-English velar fricative sound [kh] .
noun
4.
a guttural sound.

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Gutturals is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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.

Origin:
1585–95; < Neo-Latin gutturālis of the throat, equivalent to Latin guttur gullet, throat + -ālis -al1

gut·tur·al·ly, adverb
gut·tur·al·ness, gut·tur·al·i·ty, gut·tur·al·ism, noun
non·gut·tur·al, adjective
non·gut·tur·al·ly, adverb
non·gut·tur·al·ness, noun
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un·gut·tur·al, adjective
un·gut·tur·al·ly, adverb
un·gut·tur·al·ness, noun
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