bee feater
tər noun
1.
a yeoman of the English royal guard or a warder of the Tower of London.
2.
Informal. an Englishman.
3.
a person who eats beef.
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| —n | |
| a nickname often applied to the Yeomen of the Guard and the Yeomen Warders at the Tower of London | |
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Bee feater
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. |
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Word Origin & History
beefeater
"warder of the Tower of London," 1670s, a contemptuous reference to well-fed servants of the royal household; the notion is of "one who eats another's beef" (cf. O.E. hlaf-æta "servant," lit. "loaf-eater").
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