blue point

blue point

noun
a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.

Origin:
1940–45
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Blue point is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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.
WordNet
blue point

noun
1. oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw [syn: bluepoint
2. small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island [syn: bluepoint
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