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stopword

[stop-wurd]

noun

any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.

Also, stop word.

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Stopword is always a great word to know.

So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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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Main Entry:	stopword
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	See stop list

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