Parnell

Par·nell

[pahr-nel, pahr-nl]
noun
Charles Stewart, 1846–91, Irish political leader.

Par·nell·ism, noun
Par·nell·ite, noun
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Parnell (ˈpɑːnəl, pɑːˈnɛl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Charles Stewart. 1846--91, Irish nationalist, who led the Irish Home Rule movement in Parliament (1880--90) with a calculated policy of obstruction. Although Gladstone was converted to Home Rule (1886), Parnell's career was ruined by the scandal over his adultery with Mrs O'Shea
 
'Parnellism
 
n
 
'Parnellite
 
n, —adj

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Parnell is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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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