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bluepencil

[bloo-pen-suhl]

blue-pen·cil

[bloo-pen-suhl]
verb (used with object), -ciled, -cil·ing or (especially British) -cilled, -cil·ling.
to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.

Origin:
1885–90
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Bluepencil is always a great word to know.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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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