bausond

[baw-suhnd, bos-uhnd]

bau·sond

[baw-suhnd, bos-uhnd]
adjective British Dialect.
1.
(of animals) having white spots on a black or bay background; piebald.
2.
(of horses and cattle) having a white patch or streak on the forehead or having one white foot.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English bausand < Middle French, Old French bausant, baucent < Vulgar Latin *balteānus belted, striped, equivalent to Latin balte(us) belt + -ānus -an
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Bausond is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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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