gyrovague

[jahy-roh-veyg]

gy·ro·vague

[jahy-roh-veyg]
noun
a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.

Origin:
1795–1805; < French < Late Latin gȳrovagus gȳro-, equivalent to gyro- gyro- + vagus strolling about; see vague
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Gyrovague is always a great word to know.
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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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