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noun Archaic.
a scoundrel; knave.
Origin:
1570–80; Middle English custrell, apparently < Middle French coustillier, coustelier, one armed with a cou(s)telle dagger (feminine derivative of coutel knife < Latin cultellus; see -ier2), with -r- perhaps from quystroun knave, page, scullion < Anglo-French (Old French coistron < Vulgar Latin *coquistrō)
1570–80; Middle English custrell, apparently < Middle French coustillier, coustelier, one armed with a cou(s)telle dagger (feminine derivative of coutel knife < Latin cultellus; see -ier2), with -r- perhaps from quystroun knave, page, scullion < Anglo-French (Old French coistron < Vulgar Latin *coquistrō)
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Coistrel
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| 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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