boarhound

[bawr-hound, bohr-]

noun

any of various large dogs, especially a Great Dane, used originally for hunting wild boars.

Origin:
1880–85; boar + hound¹

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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.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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boarhound
noun
large hound used in hunting wild boars

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