Symbionese

[sim-bee-uh-neez, -nees] Origin

Sym·bi·o·nese

[sim-bee-uh-neez, -nees]
adjective
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Symbionese Liberation Army or its adherents.

Origin:
1973; according to the group's manifesto, “taken from the word symbiosis … a body of dissimilar bodies and organisms living in deep and loving harmony …; -nese probably after Chinese, Japanese, etc.
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Symbionese is always a great word to know.
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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.
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Symbionese
as in Symbionese Liberation Army, name adopted by a socialist revolutionary group active in U.S. c.1972-76, coined from symbiosis + people-name ending -ese.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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