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 scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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fountainhead (ˈfaʊntɪnˌhɛd)

—n
1.	a spring that is the source of a stream
2.	a principal or original source

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fountainhead

spring from which a stream flows, 1580s, from fountain + head. Figurative use is from c.1600.

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