Pedestrians

[puh-des-tree-uhn]

pe·des·tri·an

[puh-des-tree-uhn]
noun
1.
a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
adjective
2.
going or performed on foot; walking.
3.
of or pertaining to walking.
4.
lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; prosaic or dull: a pedestrian commencement speech.

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Pedestrians 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.

Origin:
1710–20; < Latin pedestri- (stem of pedester on foot, derivative of pēs (stem ped-); see pedi-) + -an

non·pe·des·tri·an, noun, adjective
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