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Menage
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| 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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Word Origin & History
menage
1690s, "management of a household, domestic establishment," from Fr. ménage, from O.Fr. manaige "household, family dwelling," from V.L. *mansionaticum "household, that which pertains to a house," from L. mansionem "dwelling" (see mansion). Now generally used in suggestive
EXPANDborrowed phrase ménage à trois (1891), lit. "household of three." Borrowed earlier as mayngnage, maynage and in the sense "members of a household, a man's household" (c.1300).
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