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noun
1.
a frying pan.
2.
a cylindrical serving vessel of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, having a hinged lid, a handle, and, sometimes, feet.
3.
Chiefly British. a long-handled saucepan.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English; origin uncertain
1375–1425; late Middle English; origin uncertain
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Skillet
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. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Word Origin & History
skillet
c.1400, perhaps from M.Fr. esculette (Mod.Fr. écuelle), dim. of escuele "plate," from L. scutella "serving platter" (see scuttle (n.)); or formed in English from skele "wooden bucket or pail" (early 14c.), from a Scandinavian source (cf. O.N. skjola "pail, bucket").
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