compañero

 [kom-puhn-yair-oh; Sp. kawm-pah-nye-raw]  

com·pa·ñe·ro

   [kom-puhn-yair-oh; Sp. kawm-pah-nye-raw]
noun, plural com·pa·ñe·ros  [-puhn-yair-ohz; Sp. -pah-nye-raws] .
1.
(in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.
2.
(in Latin America) a male worker, coworker, or comrade.
Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; < Spanish, equivalent to compañ(a) company + -ero < Latin -ārius -ary
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Compañero 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.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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