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Penultimate
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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penultimate
1677, from earlier penultima (n.) "the next to the last syllable of a word or verse," from fem. of L. adj. penultimus "next-to-last," from pæne "almost" + ultimus "final."
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