empty nester

empty nester

noun
a parent whose child or children have reached adulthood and moved away from home.

Origin:
empty nest + -er1
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Empty nester is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. 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 chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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Main Entry:  empty nester
Part of Speech:  n
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