spraint
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| —n | |
| (often plural) a piece of otter's dung | |
| [C15 sprayntes (pl), from Medieval French espraintes otter's dung, from espreindre to press out: compare | |
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Spraint
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 children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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