kleagle

[klee-guhl] Origin

klea·gle

[klee-guhl]
noun
an official of the Ku Klux Klan.

Origin:
1920–25, Americanism; Kl(an) + eagle
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Kleagle is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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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Word Origin & History

Kleagle
title of an officer in the KKK, 1924, from Klan + eagle.
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