antifeedant

[an-tee-feed-nt, an-tahy-]

an·ti·feed·ant

[an-tee-feed-nt, an-tahy-]
noun
a chemical agent that causes a pest, as an insect, to stop eating.

Origin:
1970–75; anti- + feed + -ant
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Antifeedant is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. 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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