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equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification: His angry speech was tantamount to a declaration of war.
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Tantamount
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. 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 fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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tantamount
1641, from verbal phrase tant amount "be equivalent" (1628), from Anglo-Fr. tant amunter "amount to as much" (1292), from O.Fr. tant "as much" (from L. tantus, from tam "so") + amonter "amount to, go up" (see amount).
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