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verb (used with object)
1.
to draw up or gather (cloth or the like) on three or more parallel threads.
2.
to bake (eggs removed from the shell) in a shallow dish or in individual dishes.
noun
3.
Also, shirr·ing. a shirred arrangement, as of cloth.
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Shirred
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 gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Origin:
1840–50; origin uncertain
1840–50; origin uncertain
Related forms
un·shirred, adjective
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
shirr
"to gather (cloth) on parallel threads," 1892, back-formation from shirred (1847), from shirr (n.) "elastic webbing," of unknown origin.
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