switchboards

[swich-bawrd, -bohrd]

switch·board

[swich-bawrd, -bohrd]
noun Electricity.
1.
a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
2.
Also called lightboard. a panel of switches, dimmers, etc., for controlling the lighting on a stage or in an auditorium.

Origin:
1870–75, Americanism; switch + board
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Switchboards 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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