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Apologue
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| 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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apologue
"moral fable," 1550s, from Fr. apologue, from L. apologus, from Gk. apologos, from apo- "off, away from" + logos "speech" (see lecture). Lit. "(that which comes) from a speech."
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