epochmaking
əkˌmeɪ adjective
opening a new era, as in human history, thought, or knowledge; epochal: an epoch-making discovery.
Origin:
1870–75
1870–75
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| epoch-making | |
| —adj | |
| of great importance; momentous | |
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Epochmaking
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| 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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