Jacques Bonhomme

[zhahk baw-nawm]

Jacques Bon·homme

[zhahk baw-nawm]
noun
the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.

Origin:
< French: literally, James goodfellow; see jack3
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Jacques Bonhomme is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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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