closed compound

Main Entry:  closed compound
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  a compound word without spaces or hyphens
Example:  Keyboard and pancake are closed compounds.
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Closed compound is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
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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