loggerhead shrike

loggerhead shrike

noun
a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.

Origin:
1805–15, Americanism
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Loggerhead shrike is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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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loggerhead shrike

noun
a common shrike of southeastern United States having black bands around the eyes 
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