dumka

[doom-kuh]

dum·ka

[doom-kuh]
noun, plural dum·ky [-kee] .
1.
a Slavic folk song that alternates in character between sadness and gaiety.
2.
an instrumental composition or movement imitative of such a folk song.

Origin:
1890–95; < Czech < Ukrainian dúmka, orig. diminutive of dúma a genre of narrative folk poetry; see duma
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Dumka is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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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