deadweight

Origin

dead weight

noun
1.
the heavy, unrelieved weight of anything inert: The dead weight of the bear's body was over 300 pounds.
2.
a heavy or oppressive burden or responsibility.
3.
the weight of a railroad car, truck, etc., as distinct from its load or contents.
Also, dead·weight.


Origin:
1650–60
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Deadweight is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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

deadweight
1650s, "weight of an inert body," from dead + weight.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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