roundabout way

roundabout way

noun
a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) [syn: detour
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Roundabout way is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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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