mi'nuteness
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| —adj | |
| 1. | very small; diminutive; tiny |
| 2. | unimportant; petty |
| 3. | precise or detailed: a minute examination |
| [C15: from Latin minūtus, past participle of minuere to diminish] | |
| mi'nuteness2 | |
| —n | |
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Mi'nuteness
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. 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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