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tə noun
Origin:
1965–70; ellipsis of American Spanish quiniela perfecta perfect quinella
1965–70; ellipsis of American Spanish quiniela perfecta perfect quinella
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perfecta
1971, from Amer.Sp. perfecta, shortened from quiniela perfecta "perfect quiniela," a bet in horseracing, originally "a game of chance," from O.Sp. quina "game of dice," from L. quini "five each."
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Perfecta
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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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