fairhaired

fair-haired

[fair-haird]
adjective
1.
having light-colored hair.
Idioms
2.
fair-haired boy, Informal. a person, especially a young one, treated as a favorite or considered especially promising by a superior or the members of a group: He's the fair-haired boy of the literary set.
Origin:
1620–30; fair1 + hair + -ed3

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fair-haired

adjective
favorite; "the fair-haired boy of the literary set" [syn: blue-eyed] 
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Fairhaired is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. 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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