abegging

[uh-beg-ing]

a·beg·ging

[uh-beg-ing]
adverb, adjective
1.
Archaic. begging.
2.
go abegging, to be unnoticed, unused, or unappreciated; find few supporters: New ideas often go abegging.

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Abegging is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see a-1, beg, -ing2
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