by-path

[bahy-path, -pahth]

by-path

[bahy-path, -pahth]
noun, plural by-paths [-pathz, -pahthz, -paths, -pahths] .
a private path or an indirect or secondary course or means; byway.
Also, by·path.


Origin:
1325–75; Middle English bi path. See by1 (adj.), path
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By-path is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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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