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Thews
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 chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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thews
O.E. þeawes "customs, manners, personal qualities," pl. of þeaw "habit, custom," from P.Gmc. *thawaz (cf. O.S. thau "usage, custom, habit," O.H.G. thau "discipline"); no certain cognates outside W.Gmc. Meaning "bodily powers or parts indicating strength, good physique" is attested from 1566,
EXPANDfrom notion of "good qualities." Acquired a sense of "muscular development" when it was revived by Scott (1818).
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