-ton

a suffix formerly used to form nouns from adjectives: simpleton; singleton.

Origin:
variant of dial. tone one (see tother)

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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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