Nearby Words

anigh

[uh-nahy]

a·nigh

[uh-nahy] Chiefly New England and Midland U.S. Older Use.
preposition
1.
near; close to.
adverb
2.
nearby; close by.

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Anigh 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.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1765–75; a- (as in anear) + nigh
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