interjection
1.
farewell (a conventional expression used at parting).
noun
2.
a farewell.
Also, good·bye.
Origin:
1565–75; contraction of God be with ye
1565–75; contraction of God be with ye
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Word Origin & History
good-bye
1591, from godbwye (1573), itself a contraction of God be with ye, infl. by good day, good evening, etc.
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Good-bye
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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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