hermit-like
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hermit (ˈhɜːmɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | one of the early Christian recluses |
| 2. | any person living in solitude |
| [C13: from Old French hermite, from Late Latin erēmīta, from Greek erēmitēs living in the desert, from erēmia desert, from erēmos lonely] | |
| her'mitic | |
| —adj | |
| her'mitical | |
| —adj | |
| her'mitically | |
| —adv | |
| 'hermit-like | |
| —adj | |
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Hermit-like
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. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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