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by-your-leave

[bahy-yer-leev]

by-your-leave

[bahy-yer-leev]
noun
an apology for not having sought permission.

Origin:
1910–15
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By-your-leave is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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by-your-leave
 
n
a request for permission (esp in the phrase without so much as a by-your-leave)

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