Grimm

Grimm

[grim]
noun
Ja·kob Lud·wig Karl [yah-kop loot-vikh kahrl, lood-] , 1785–1863, and his brother Wil·helm Karl [vil-helm] 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.
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Grimm (ɡrɪm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Jakob Ludwig Karl (ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç karl), 1785--1863, and his brother, Wilhelm Karl (ˈvɪlhɛlm karl), 1786--1859, German philologists and folklorists, who collaborated on Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812--22) and began a German dictionary. Jakob is noted also for his philological work Deutsche Grammatik (1819--37), in which he formulated the law named after him

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Grimm is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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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