clothespin

[klohz-pin, klohthz-, klohs-] Origin

clothes·pin

[klohz-pin, klohthz-, klohs-]
noun
a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; clothes + pin
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Clothespin is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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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Word Origin & History

clothespin
1846, from clothes + pin.
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