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1895–1900, Americanism
1895–1900, Americanism
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Seven-year itch
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. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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| seven-year itch | |
| —n | |
| informal a tendency towards infidelity, traditionally said to begin after about seven years of marriage | |
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| Main Entry: | seven-year itch |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a purported tendency to infidelity at the seven-year point of a marriage |
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Word Origin & History
seven-year itch
1899, Amer.Eng., some sort of skin condition (sometimes identified with poison ivy infection) that either lasts seven years or returns every seven years. Jocular use for "urge to stray from marital fidelity" is attested from 1952, as the title of the Broadway play (made into a film, 1955) by George Axelrod
EXPAND(1922-2003), in which the lead male character reads an article describing the high number of men have extra-marital affairs after seven years of marriage.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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