Quakers

[kwey-ker]

Quak·er

[kwey-ker]
noun
a popular name for a member of the Religious Society of Friends.

Origin:
1590–1600; quake + -er1

Quak·er·ish, Quak·er·like, adjective
non-Quak·er, noun, adjective
non-Quak·er·ish, adjective
pro-Quak·er, adjective

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Quakers is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Society of Friends

noun
a sect founded by George Fox in England about 1650, opposed to oath-taking and war.
Also called Quakers, Religious Society of Friends.
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quakers

noun
a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers [syn: Religious Society of Friends
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