bodega
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bodega (bəʊˈdiːɡə, Spanish boˈðeɣa) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| a shop selling wine and sometimes groceries, esp in a Spanish-speaking country | |
| [C19: from Spanish, ultimately from Greek apothēkē storehouse, from apotithenai to store, put away] | |
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Bodega
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| 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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Word Origin & History
bodega
1848, from Mex.Sp., from Sp., "a wine shop," from L. apotheca, from Gk. apotheke "depot, store" (see apothecary). The same word as boutique.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
Go back downstairs to the bodega and buy canned tuna and a bottle of mayonnaise.
As he stood outside the boarded-up bodega, customer after customer walked by to offer apologies.
The mood in the bodega-turned-sports-venue was one of extreme concentration.
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