a giacometti

Gia·co·met·ti

[jah-kuh-met-ee; Italian jah-kaw-met-tee]
noun
Al·ber·to [al-bair-toh; Italian ahl-ber-taw] , 1901–66, Swiss sculptor and painter.
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Giacometti (Italian dʒakoˈmetti) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Alberto (alˈbɛrto). 1901--66, Swiss sculptor and painter, noted particularly for his long skeletal statues of isolated figures

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A giacometti 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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