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Quiddle

Quid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quiddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quiddling.] [L. quid what.] To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

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Quiddle is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. 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.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Webster's Revised

Quiddle

Quid"dle\, Quiddler \Quid"dler\, n. One who wastes his energy about trifles. --Emerson.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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