gunny

[guhn-ee] Origin

gun·ny

[guhn-ee]
noun, plural gun·nies.
a strong, coarse material made commonly from jute, especially for bags or sacks; burlap.

Origin:
1705–15; < Hindi gonī < Sanskrit: sack, perhaps orig. of hide; compare gaur
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Gunny is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. 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.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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gunny (ˈɡʌnɪ)
 
n , pl -nies
1.  a coarse hard-wearing fabric usually made from jute and used for sacks, etc
2.  Also called: gunny sack a sack made from this fabric
 
[C18: from Hindi gōnī, from Sanskrit gonī sack, probably of Dravidian origin]

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gunny
1711, Anglo-Indian goney "coarse fabric," from Hindi goni, from Skt. goni "sack."
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gunny definition

[ˈgəni]
  1. n.
    a potent marijuana from Jamaica or Africa. (Drugs.) : This gunny is just junk, plain old junk.
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