ingurgitating

[in-gur-ji-teyt]

in·gur·gi·tate

[in-gur-ji-teyt] verb, in·gur·gi·tat·ed, in·gur·gi·tat·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to swallow greedily or in great quantity, as food.
2.
to engulf; swallow up: The floodwaters ingurgitated trees and houses.
verb (used without object)
3.
to drink or eat greedily; guzzle; swill.

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Ingurgitating is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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.

Origin:
1560–70; < Latin ingurgitātus past participle of ingurgitāre to fill, flood, drench with a stream of liquid, equivalent to in- in-2 + gurgit- (stem of gurges) whirlpool, flood + -ātus -ate1

in·gur·gi·ta·tion, noun
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