haranguer
World English Dictionary
harangue (həˈræŋ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to address (a person or crowd) in an angry, vehement, or forcefully persuasive way |
| —n | |
| 2. | a loud, forceful, or angry speech |
| [C15: from Old French, from Old Italian aringa public speech, probably of Germanic origin; related to Medieval Latin harenga; see | |
| ha'ranguer | |
| —n | |
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| haranguer | |
noun | |
| a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech |
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Haranguer
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| 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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