θə interjection Archaic.
indeed! (used ironically or contemptuously in quoting another).
Origin:
1510–20; from quoth a quoth he
1510–20; from quoth a quoth he
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| —interj | |
| archaic an expression of mild sarcasm, used in picking up a word or phrase used by someone else: Art thou mad? Mad, quotha! I am more sane than thou | |
| [C16: from quoth a quoth he] | |
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Quotha
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. 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. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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