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bobby-dazzler

bobby dazzler

noun British and Australian Slang.
a person or thing that is outstanding or excellent.

Origin:
1865–70; apparently generic use of Bobby
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Bobby-dazzler is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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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bobby-dazzler
 
n
dialect anything outstanding, striking, or showy, esp an attractive girl
 
[C19: expanded form of dazzler something striking or attractive]

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