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Loneness
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| lone (ləʊn) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | unaccompanied; solitary |
| 2. | single or isolated: a lone house |
| 3. | a literary word for lonely |
| 4. | unmarried or widowed |
| [C14: from the mistaken division of | |
| 'loneness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
lone
late 14c., aphetic shortening of alone (q.v.) by misdivision of what is properly al(l) one. The Lone Star in ref. to "Texas" is first recorded 1843, from its flag. Loner "one who avoids company" first recorded 1947. Lone wolf in the fig. sense is 1909, Amer.Eng.
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