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miller's-thumb

[mil-erz-thuhm]

mill·er's-thumb

[mil-erz-thuhm]
noun
any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English milneres thume; the fish is so called from its thumblike head
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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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miller's-thumb

noun
small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America 
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