horsehead

horse·head

[hawrs-hed]
noun, plural horse·heads ( especially collectively ) horse·head.
moonfish ( def 1 ).

Origin:
1880–85; horse + head

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horsehead

noun
any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies [syn: moonfish
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Horsehead is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. 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 fool or simpleton; ninny.
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