speak in tongues

speak in tongues

verb
speak unintelligibly in or as if in religious ecstasy; "The parishioners spoke in tongues" 
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Speak in tongues is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. 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 children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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