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noun
1.
a short journey, especially one taken for pleasure.
verb (used without object)
2.
to make a short journey.
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Jaunted
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. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Origin:
1560–70; origin uncertain
1560–70; origin uncertain
Related forms
jaunt·ing·ly, adverb
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
jaunt
1678 in modern sense, earlier meaning "tiresome journey" (1592), originally "to ride a horse in such a way as to tire him" (1572), of unknown origin, probably from some obscure O.Fr. word.
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