spelling-bee

spelling bee

noun
a spelling competition won by the individual or team spelling the greatest number of words correctly; spelldown.

Origin:
1870–75

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spelling bee
 
n
a contest in which players are required to spell words according to orthographic conventions
 
[C19: from bee²]

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Spelling-bee is always a great word to know.
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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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