papability

pa·pa·ble

[pey-puh-buhl]
adjective
suitable or likely to become pope.

Origin:
1585–95; < Middle French < Italian papabile, equivalent to papa pope + -bile -ble

pa·pa·bil·i·ty, noun
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Papability 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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