whin

[hwin, win]

whin

[hwin, win]
noun Chiefly British.
any thorny or prickly shrub, especially gorse.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English whynne, apparently < Scandinavian; compare Icelandic hvīngras bent grass, Danish hvene, Swedish (h)ven
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Whin 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 gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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whin1 (wɪn)
 
n
another name for gorse
 
[C11: from Scandinavian; compare Old Danish hvine (græs), Norwegian hvine, Swedish hven]

whin2 (wɪn)
 
n
short for whinstone
 
[C14: quin, of obscure origin]

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