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Wiry
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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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wiry (ˈwaɪərɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , wirier, wiriest | |
| 1. | (of people or animals) slender but strong in constitution |
| 2. | made of or resembling wire, esp in stiffness: wiry hair |
| 3. | (of a sound) produced by or as if by a vibrating wire |
| 'wirily | |
| —adv | |
| 'wiriness | |
| —n | |
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Medical Dictionary
wiry wir·y (wīr'ē)
adj. wir·i·er, wir·i·est
Resembling wire in form or quality, especially in stiffness.
Sinewy and lean.
Filiform and hard. Used of a pulse.
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Example sentences
Song: a high-pitched, wiry to lisping squeaky warble from perch, often prolonged and repeated with pulsating succession.
Wiry trainers possessed of supreme cool and confidence.
The box is emptied of the bottles it once held, and filled with packages of wiry string used for rackets.
Soft and pliable when wet, but wiry and brittle when dry.
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