larrikin

lar·ri·kin

[lar-i-kin] Australian Slang.
noun
1.
a street rowdy; hoodlum.
adjective
2.
disorderly; rowdy.

Origin:
1865–70; origin uncertain

lar·ri·kin·ism, noun
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larrikin (ˈlærɪkɪn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a.  a mischievous person
 b.  (as modifier): a larrikin bloke
2.  a hooligan
 
[C19: from English dialect: a mischievous youth]

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Larrikin is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. 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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