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| —n | |
| a male obstetrician or midwife | |
| [literally: one who is present at the bedside] | |
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Accoucheur
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 stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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Word Origin & History
accoucheur
1759, "midwife" (properly, "male midwife"), from Fr. (Jules Clément, later 17c.), agent noun from accoucher "to go to childbed, be delivered," originally "to lie down" (12c.), from O.Fr. culcher "to lie," from L. collocare, from com- "with" + locare "to place" (see
locate). The fem. is accoucheuse (1847). Related: Accouchement (1803).
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