gracioso

[grey-shee-oh-soh, grah-see-; Sp. grah-thyaw-saw, -syaw-]

gra·ci·o·so

[grey-shee-oh-soh, grah-see-; Sp. grah-thyaw-saw, -syaw-]
noun, plural gra·ci·o·sos [-sohz; Sp. -saws] .
a buffoon or clown in Spanish comedy.

Origin:
1640–50; < Spanish: amiable, gracious, spirited (noun use of adj.) < Latin grātiōsus gracious
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Gracioso is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. 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 gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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gracioso (ˌɡræsɪˈəʊsəʊ, Spanish ɡraˈθjoso)
 
n , pl -sos
a clown in Spanish comedy
 
[C17: from Spanish: gracious]

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