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Swede
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| 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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| swede (swiːd) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a Eurasian plant, Brassica napus (or B. napobrassica), cultivated for its bulbous edible root, which is used as a vegetable and as cattle fodder: family Brassicaceae (crucifers) |
| 2. | the root of this plant |
| 3. | (NZ) a slang word for head |
| [C19: so called after being introduced into Scotland from Sweden in the 18th century] | |
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Word Origin & History
Swede
1614, from Low Ger., from M.L.G. Swede, back-formed from a source akin to O.E. Sweoðeod, lit. "Swede-people," from Sweon (pl.) "Swedes" (O.N., O.Swed. Sviar, L. Suiones). Sweden (1603) is from M.Du. Sweden, probably a dat. pl. of Swede (earlier in Eng. Sweden was used of the people and Swedeland
EXPAND of the country). In O.E., the country was Sweoland or Sweorice (cf. O.N. sviariki, source of Swed. Sverige). The present Eng. form of the country name emerged 16c. in Scot. (Swethin, Swadne, etc.). Swedish is recorded from 1632.
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