shadchan

shad·chan

[Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English shaht-khuhn; Sephardic Hebrew shaht-khahn]
noun, plural shad·cha·nim [Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew shaht-khaw-nim; Sephardic Hebrew shaht-khah-neem] . English, shad·chans. Yiddish and hebrew.
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shadchan (ˈʃatxən, Hebrew ʃɑdˈxɑn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl shadchanim, shadchans
a Jewish marriage broker
 
[from Hebrew shadhkhān, from shiddēkh to arrange a marriage]

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Shadchan 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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