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leaky

[lee-kee]

leak·y

[lee-kee]
adjective, leak·i·er, leak·i·est.
1.
allowing liquid, gas, etc., to enter or escape: a leaky boat; a leaky container.
2.
Informal. unreliable: a leaky memory; a leaky tongue.

Origin:
1600–10; leak + -y1

leak·i·ness, noun
un·leak·y, adjective
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Leaky is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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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leaky (ˈliːkɪ)
 
adj , leakier, leakiest
leaking or tending to leak
 
'leakiness
 
n

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