meagreness

World English Dictionary
meagre or meager (ˈmiːɡə)
 
adj
1.  deficient in amount, quality, or extent
2.  thin or emaciated
3.  lacking in richness or strength
 
[C14: from Old French maigre,from Latin macer lean, poor]
 
meager or meager
 
adj
 
[C14: from Old French maigre,from Latin macer lean, poor]
 
'meagrely or meager
 
adv
 
'meagerly or meager
 
adv
 
'meagreness or meager
 
n
 
'meagerness or meager
 
n

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Meagreness is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
WordNet
meagreness

noun
the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness
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