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is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Jesuit (ˈdʒɛzjʊɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (the Society of Jesus) founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola in 1534 with the aims of defending the papacy and Catholicism against the Reformation and to undertake missionary work among the heathen |
| 2. | informal, offensive (sometimes not capital) a person given to subtle and equivocating arguments; casuist |
| [C16: from New Latin Jēsuita, from Late Latin Jēsus + -ita | |
| Jesu'itic | |
| —adj | |
| Jesu'itical | |
| —adj | |
| Jesu'itically | |
| —adv | |
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