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noun Chiefly British.
1.
skittles, (used with a singular verb) ninepins in which a wooden ball or disk is used to knock down the pins.
2.
one of the pins used in this game.
Origin:
1625–35; perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse skutill shuttle, arrow; Danish skyttel shuttle
1625–35; perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse skutill shuttle, arrow; Danish skyttel shuttle
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Skittles
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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skittles
1634, pl. of skittle, one of the pins used in the game, probably from a Scand. source (cf. Norw. skyttel "shuttle").
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