NEXT DOOR

next-door

[adv. neks-dawr, -dohr, nekst-; adj. neks-dawr, -dohr, nekst-]
adverb
1.
Also, next door. to, at, or in the next house on the street, especially if it is very close by, or the adjacent apartment, office, room, or the like: Go next-door and get your sister. Your sister is next-door. Her brother lives next-door.
adjective
2.
being situated or living next-door: next-door neighbors.

Origin:
1475–85

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next door
 
adj, —adv
at, in, or to the adjacent house, flat, building, etc: we live next door to the dentist; the next-door house

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Next door is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. 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 fool or simpleton; ninny.
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