corbie

cor·bie

[kawr-bee]
noun Scot.
a raven or crow.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English corbin < Old French < Latin corvīnus corvine

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corbie (ˈkɔːbɪ, Scottish ˈkɔːrbɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
raven a Scot name for crow
 
[C15: from Old French corbin, from Latin corvīnuscorvine]

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Corbie is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. 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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CORBIE definition

language
An early system on the IBM 704.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
(1996-05-10)

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